02x03 - It Could Be You Tomorrow

[bunniefuu]

[somber music playing]

[Qua'Naijha]
Nobody was doing TikTok like
Matima was doing TikTok.

[Christopher]
He'll put James Brown
to shame.

He'll put Michael Jackson
to shame.

[Qua'Naijha]
Quinton Dorsey's clothing brand
was called Bag Season.

[Taun-Yea]
Teem was a brand ambassador
for Bag Season.

They both were
building a brand.

Both were determined
to make it out.

[siren wailing]

[Christopher]
When you are well known
and someone is jealous,

you become a target.

[g*n shot blares]

[Qua'Naijha]
That's the mentality.

If I don't have it,
I gotta get it by any means.

[g*n shot blares]

[Grubb]
It was the most violent
and senseless crime spree

I have ever seen.

[g*n shot blares]

And the person who done this
is still loose.

[theme music playing]

♪♪

♪ I get that [indistinct] rise
up by myself ♪

[Qua'Naijha]
Teem was always really good
at dancing.

He grew up idolizing
Michael Jackson.

Chris Brown was always on beat.
Just was natural.

Everything was like very
natural for him.

♪ I do this by myself ♪

[Rahkim]
He was a bit of a daredevil.

He liked to do flips
and stuff off of cars

and fences and walls.

Oh!
[laughs]

[Qua'Naijha] He had this type
of light to him.

He was like a fireball.

He loved when people tell him
he couldn't do something.

And every time he would come
out on top every single time.

♪ [indistinct] rise up
by myself ♪

♪ All by myself ♪

[Qua'Naijha]
He did aspire to be one
of the greatest.

He always knew that he would

eventually get to where
he wanted to be.

♪ By myself, myself, myself ♪

[Qua'Naijha]
And that's when he ended up
getting into TikTok.

♪I got everything
I got everything ♪

[Jasmine]
Matima was doing dance videos,
anywhere from his living room

to malls to parking lots,
and it took off.

[people screaming]

It's not an easy thing to do.

The video has to resonate
with viewers,

and Matima was able
to do that in a way

that no one had done.

Nobody in the hood was
really doing TikTok

like Teem was doing TikTok.

♪ I got everything
I got everything ♪

♪ I got everything
I got everything ♪

If it wasn't right,
he was not putting it out.

He was a perfectionist.

He was very talented
in different styles of dancing.

It was nothing he couldn't do,
like, he did country.

He even did Jamaican whining,
could belly dance.

He was doing, like,
bachata, cultural dances,

dances from different cities,
like Jersey dance,

Philly dance.
He was self-taught.

Dancing in the Crocs,
he just got into it randomly

and it turned into something
that people was idolizing.

He was producing,
directing, choreographing.

He was running the show.

[Qua'Naijha]
Teem did a video,

and Chris Brown
posted on his Instagram story.

He was so hyped.

"Oh my God,
guess who just posted me?

Chris Brown just posted me."

[producer]
Did Chris Brown slide
in his DMs?

I believe so.

It was like a full
circle moment.

Like, I've been dancing
to you for forever

since I was younger, so for you
to say you like my moves,

he was very excited about that.

[Rahkim]
He took a kitchen spoon,

had a pot on my head,

it was actually hurting,
so, like...

The video, it just blew up.

People were crying,
laughing at it.

And Snoop Dogg reposted it,
and we were so hyped.

Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg,
they are icons.

Chris Brown, like, so I felt
like that made it so real

for him.
Like, people see me.

Like, people actually see me.

[Monie] Teem's full name is
Matima Abbasi Miller Jr.

It's a Swahili name.
It means strong heart.

Swavy was his internet name.
Teem was his family nickname.

[Monie] Teem, you gotta feel it.
You gotta feel it.

[Qua'Naijha]
Teem was dancing at a very,
very young age.

I would say Pampers.

We were a really,
really close family.

As a child, Teem,
he was always helping people.

He was very active,
very outgoing, sweet boy.

Me and Rahkim have the same dad.
Teem has a different dad.

My dad was very active
in our lives,

but Matima's dad was
a very absent dad.

It made him feel like he wasn't
good enough.

Like, it sparked a fire
in him, actually.

My mom -- it's nothing that she
will not do for her kids.

So she had to be mom and dad,
essentially.

But Teem,
since a very young age,

he's always been a protector.

Happy birthday, Mom.

You know I love you.
Let me just tell you this.

I'm your protector.
Me.

-[Monie] Right.
-I need to let you know,

you're my heart.
-[Monie] OK.

Boom, boom.
I love you.

[Qua'Naijha] My mom met a guy
named Shannon.

He instantly jumped in
and played a father role.

When it came to Teem,
that was his dad.

It wasn't a stepdad.
That was his father.

But a random day,
someone k*lled him.

It was due to g*n violence

over something
so petty and small.

It broke Teem.
He was angry for a long time.

He started acting out
at school.

He started hanging out
outside more.

Being very defiant.

Wilmington, Delaware
is known as "Killerware,"

m*rder Town, USA,

because of how much
the beef starts.

[siren wailing]

Being raised in the project,
death on top of death,

drugs on top of drugs,
there was no hope anywhere.

[Christopher] Wilmington has
about 75,000 residents.

They are a community
that stick together,

whether in poverty
or in prosperity.

There is a strong difference
in the different neighborhoods.

There are communities
that they're doing pretty good.

But also,
there's certain districts

that you can feel
the oppression.

You can feel the pain.

There's a lot of hating
going on.

Gangs, drugs,
a lot of sh**ting and k*lling.

[Christopher]
In most cases, the rivals live
next door to each other.

Most of them went
to school together.

They turn on each other
because of the lack,

the neglect.

[Qua'Naijha] Where we live,
there's only two ways to go.

You're either gonna be
something positive,

or you're gonna get sucked
into your environment

and join a g*ng.

[Rahkim] A lot of people take
the easy route

just because it's
the instant gratification,

and they're able to get by
and make it to the next day.

My mom tried to shield us
from the outside environment,

make sure
that we were in school

and out of the streets.

[Qua'Naijha]
My mom's been through a lot
in her life,

and so she always turned to God.

We used to go to church
every Sunday.

Wanted to let Teem know, like,
"You don't have

to go this way."

He like, "OK, let me find

something that I like to do
that's positive."

I gave my kids options,
but at this particular time,

I just wanted them to do
something in the church.

[Christopher]
I saw how a great portion
of the young men

that were in our church,

their fathers
were nowhere around.

There birthed

the Holy Soldiers Church
dance group.

This exciting,
over-energetic young brother

came in and he helped
perfect steps.

Would I say that he was
an exceptional dancer

and have star quality?
The boy had it.

He was gifted to dance.

We had to go to him and say,
"We're hearing that you are

this big time star
and you didn't tell us."

He said,
"I let it do what it do."

I was so excited that he was
living life,

doing something positive.

You smile with it at first,
so when the beat drops,

you just boom.

Every time I turned around,
he had the balloons

where he hit 100K,


After five months of being
on TikTok, Matima had

over 400,000 followers.

[Quan] People connected with him
because, like,

he's naturally entertaining.

[voice on video]
Why are you acting so nervous?

And why are you sweating
so much?

And --

I didn't know we went
to the same school, really.

I saw, like, a little video
of him dancing,

so I was just laughing
and followed.

And then we just found a way
to communicate with each other.

And then we just started
hanging out.

We were just, like,
best of friends.

He was funny, goofy, caring.

He would always be there
for my rescue.

He would be like,
"Now who touching

my little brother?"

He also wanted to put Quan
into that social media life

as well.

[Quan]
I looked at him as like

a brother figure
and like a father figure.

With the TikTok stuff,
I was always the annoying

little brother that always
kept annoying him.

Literally he was
my TikTok mentor.

This is my brother right here.

Y'all might see him
on TikTok and Instagram.

[Monie]
He kept asking me,

"Yo, mom,
can you get in a video?"

Just finally one day I said,

"All right, let me get
in these videos."

I definitely was his hype man.

It wasn't too many takes,

'cause I know
how to dance as well.

I just did it so he could
shut up, basically.

[Qua'Naijha]
Family and social media were

two of the most important
things in the Teem's life.

And it was great
that they were able

to be intertwined like that.

Stop playing with me.

-I was grabbing my shoulder.
-Stop.

Stop.

[Rahkim] TikTok was like
a science for him.

Like, he knew the algorithm.

He knew, like, you know,
what time to post.

And that's why he was one
of the top creators in Delaware,

'cause he figured it out.

He was definitely a mastermind.

I took on a bit
of a managerial role

in Matima's
social media journey.

Gave him guidance
on monetizing his account.

His first tax return
from TikTok

was like over $80,000.

I don't think he's been
on the app

for more than six months.

This was just from TikTok
creator fund itself.

[Qua'Naijha]
He was like, "I'm doing
something I'm loving.

I'm getting paid from it."

That's all his money.
That's all profit.

Matima was definitely
a pioneer of TikTok.

After nine months of being
on this platform,

he had over 1 million followers.

[Quan] Every milestone he hit,
he celebrated.

I was recording that video.

He said, "Yo, bro, is it crazy
that I really just hit

one million?"

I'd be like,
"Bro, I forgot you even hit


'Cause it was
like we'd just be having fun.

He was TikTok famous,
but he was still in the hood.

[Rahkim] Jealousy is a sickness
in the community,

and definitely survival
of the fittest is like

eat or be eaten.

[Qua'Naijha]
He did worry about the dangers

of people doing something
to him.

He was very cautious of that.

You gotta be wise,
be aware of the friends

that surround you.

[tense music builds up]

[Rahkim] From my understanding,
Matima was with a group

of friends,
and a g*ng were following them,

and they were trying
to target one

of the people that Matima
was with.

Fortunately, that sh**ting
didn't harm Matima.

Teem's been in situations
where people have been shot

around the area,

but he's never
been in a situation

where someone's been trying
to harm somebody

while he's there.

So the car sh**ting definitely
was when his eyes opened

to the danger that was going on

with people he's associated
with from South Bridge.

[Rahkim] I think he felt like
the environment was becoming

more unsafe.
He was scared.

[Monie] I found out
he brought a g*n in my house.

And I'm like,
"Teem, you know I don't do g*ns.

"Why you got a g*n in my house?
That's so disrespectful.

Please get that out
of my house."

And he did.
He removed it.

And I didn't think nothing
of it after that.

He probably was
protecting himself.

It definitely fueled him to be
like, "I gotta get out of here.

I gotta get out
of Wilmington."

Teem was
very business oriented.

He was very strategic.
TikTok was his job.

He was working very, very hard,
making money to escape.

So he started to expand.

New TikTok collabs,

that took
it to a different level,

'cause he was traveling
to Louisiana,

Philadelphia, Houston.

And he met Damaury.

Then he met Nunu.

And then he brought Wuda
into it.

He definitely found
his community of people,

people that had like-minded
ideas as him.

[Quan] His end game was
to start YouTube,

but gotta hit a certain amount
of viewers and a certain amount

of subscribers to get monetized
on YouTube.

That's when the money comes
more than TikTok and Instagram.

YouTube is a lot of work,

so I gotta put a lot of thought
into it.

But I'm definitely
gonna make a YouTube video,

so y'all stay tuned for that.

[Quan] He was trying to save up
for a house in Atlanta.

He wanted to move everybody
that he cares about

into a different state
for better opportunities

and a better lifestyle,
just everything.

[Qua'Naijha]
And then one day, he told me,
"I'm doing a collab

"with this guy who had
a clothing brand

and who was on top of his game."

Quinton Dorsey had a clothing
brand called Bag Season

that was very well known
in Wilmington.

Everybody was wearing
Bag Season.

I'm saying everybody.

It didn't really matter
what side of town he was on.

And it blew up really fast.

♪ Don't be stressing about
the money or the diamond ring ♪

[Taun-Yea]
"Bag" stands for money bag.

♪ Don't get caught up,
don't be stumbled in ♪

We'll be back at it again
with another vlog...

[Taun-Yea]
He's the sole provider

for his siblings,
for his family,

so it's the season
to chase a bag.

'Bout to have a nice
day outside...

[Taun-Yea]
Quinton was so determined
and eager to build his brand

to assure that his siblings
and his family was OK.

Fresh out of high school,

were in the basement,
pressing shirts,

tie-dyeing shirts.

My house is now,
like, a clothing store.

On Saturdays, we used to do
pop-up shops.

Our first pop-up did $3,500.

He was making
really good money.

First day back on YouTube.

People were traveling
from Maryland,

Philadelphia, New York.

I mean, all over.

They had to have it.

When he got his first shipment
from overseas, he said,

"I got my own shipment,
I got my own vendor,

"don't ask me nothing.

I'm overseas QB."

Felt like at that moment,

he knew
that he had something special.

But it did draw
some negativity.

QB talked a lot
about how he would get DMs

thinking he was all that.

He didn't show it,
but it was a concern.

It's like, "Why do they keep
saying this?

It's enough money for all of us,
we can all get it."

When Quinton
was still very young,

he lost his father first.
He got shot

and then his mother
from a heart attack.

For that to be the case,
he still turned out to be

a wonderful young man.

You can always guarantee
to see his teeth.

He just wanted to joke
around and laugh.

Quinton lived
with his grandmother,

but at 13 and a half,
Quinton came to live with me.

It was a tough decision
because he never wanted

to leave his siblings.

He stayed with me ever since.

Life didn't end
because he doesn't have

a mother or a father.

It could have,

but he was destined
for greatness.

[Qua'Naijha]
Quinton and Teem first met
over South Bridge.

Quinton seen Teem's social
media platform and was like,

"Yo, you wanna be
a brand ambassador?"

They both were
very known people,

very funny people, playful.

And just like their swag,
their aura kind of matched.

Anytime Quinton wanted him
to wear something,

he'll give him the clothes
and be like,

"OK, bro, post it."

He'll post it, he'll tag him.

At first, it was just business,
just collabs.

But I feel like they grew
a real bond afterwards.

They both were building
a brand and making a way

for them, and their family.

They both were
determined to make it out,

but that's not what happens.

[phone buzzing]

[Taun-Yea]
One day, a friend called me,
and she said,

"Quinton just got shot."

[g*n shot blares]

[Taun-Yea]
After I got that call,

I shot straight
to the East Side,

got there in no time.

And I seen Quinton laying
face down on the ground,

lifeless.

He didn't make it.

From that moment on,
everything just became a...

a blur.

[Qua'Naijha]
I seen someone post like,
"Long live Quinton" with doves.

And I'm like,
"Wow, he passed away."

He was all over my whole
social media that whole day,

the next day and the next day.

It was like,
"Why? Why him?"

From what I heard,
Quinton was sitting on the porch

with his grandmother.

The person walked up
on the porch.

Quinton asked him,
"Are you gonna do this

"in front of my grandma
and these kids up here?

Like, come on."

I was told the words
that he said was,

"F his grandmother."

[g*n shot blaring]

The person literally
shot Quinton

in front of his grandmother.

[Taun-Yea]
I don't even know how
his grandmother managed

to go on after watching
such a thing.

My grandson was k*lled
in front of my face.

I believe he took the b*llet
for me.

[Taun-Yea]
He was the epiphany of love.

Why did you take him
in that manner?

[Qua'Naijha]
It was just so heinous
and so crazy

the way it happened.

When you do stuff like that
to someone in broad daylight,

you got real beef
with that person.

You don't just k*ll somebody
in broad daylight for no reason.

[Taun-Yea]
It was definitely targeted.

Whoever shot him,

they had been circling
and riding around

waiting for him to come out.

That car had been out here
all day, riding around,

looking, and finally
when he got out there,

I guess times matched
and things transpired.

[Qua'Naijha]
Teem, he was shocked.

It hit so close to home
for him.

So it was just like,

"I can't believe
that this is somebody

that I've been talking to,
somebody I'm cool with."

He was like,
"They k*lled my boy."

When people k*ll people
in Wilmington,

it gets closer to your area,

so the fact that
it was so close to his area,

it was like,
"I don't know what's going on,

but something going on."

Made him try to be
more self-aware.

[Rahkim]
Word did spread that
the person who shot Quinton was

wearing a red Bag Season
hoodie and a ski mask.

And the person who done this
is still loose.

Matima got up that morning,
and he said,

"Mom, you want some McDonald's?"
And I was like, "Man, son."

I said, "That McDonald's
be tearing my stomach up."

I said, "But you know what?

"I ain't gonna make you go
out your way.

"You can get me
a steak egg muffin,

no egg, no cheese combo."

And he was like,
"All right, got you, Mom Dukes.

All right,
I'll come right back with that."

And usually I tell my kids
I love 'em and everything.

But I didn't do that.

[Quan] I remember that day
like it was yesterday.

I remember we were supposed
to get his mom something to eat

for breakfast.
He was going to McDonald's.

He was laughing and having fun.
Got breakfast.

When we was on the way home,
randomly, he just had

like this sentimental
conversation with me.

He was like, "I love you, bro,
and I got a plan.

Imma move us out to Atlanta
this or next week."

And I was just like,
"Yeah, bro, I appreciate

everything you do for me."
He was like, "Nah, bro,"

like,
"I genuinely love you, bro."

I said, "I love you, too."

I was cleaning up
and listening to my gospel music

at the time, waiting
for my food to come back.

[gospel music playing
over tense tones]

Go home, getting our food
ready to walk in the house,

and then that's
when tragedy hit.

Me and him
turned around at the same time.

Like, I jumped.

Tried to go for,
like, the weapon.

Like, he tried to take it
out of his hand.

His first instincts was
to grab it

and try, like, do something.

[g*n shot blares]

[Quan]
Now, I was right next to him.

This is him and this is me,

like, right next to each other,
like, literally.

Quan runs in the door,
like, "Mom! Teem got shot!"

So when I ran outside,

my son was face down
on the ground.

I screamed and just ran
over there to him,

and everything just went
out of my head.

He was on his face,

and the first cop got there
and turned him over.

I seen three shots in his back,
and it was another three shots

in his chest.

He was gasping, and I'm still
talking to him in his ear,

and I'm praying, and I'm like,
"God, please

don't let my son die."

I said, "Please don't
let him die.

Please, God."

[sobbing]

His mom is telling me,
"Go grab my phone,

go grab my phone."

And I just had, like,
this blank stare in my face,

just looking down,
like I couldn't move.

Like, it was like,
"Yo, I can't believe
this happened."

I was dead inside.

[siren wailing]

Ambulance come,
and they didn't let me get

in there, and it pissed me off,
'cause I'm like,

"How I can't get in there
with my son?"

So I put some pants on
and my shoes,

and I darted out the house
straight to my car.

I took off like a bat out
of hell to the hospital.

[Qua'Naijha] I got a phone call
from my cousin.

"Qua, Qua, Qua!

Teem got shot!
Teem got shot!"

The hospital was
in Newark, Delaware.

That's about an hour drive.

It took me 25 minutes
to get there.

The whole time I'm just praying,
like,

"Please "let him be OK.
Please let him be OK.

He gotta be OK.
Like, he OK."

[Monie]
Once I got there,

one of the ambulance guys
told me,

"Ma'am, I think you should
sit down."

I'm like, "Sit down for what?"
I said, "I wanna see my son.

"My son just got shot!

Where is he?"

[voice breaking]
That's when he said,
"Your son didn't make it,"

and I just dropped.

[sobbing]

[Qua'Naijha]
I got to the hospital.

I heard her crying, and I said,
"Mom, is he alive?

Is he alive?"

[voice shakes]
And she just yelled at me.

She's like, "No, he died!
He's not here no more!

He's gone!"

I just -- I just lost it.

I just blacked out.

I felt like my whole world
just got crushed.

I heard the news, and I didn't
even realize that I was

texting him,
and he was already dead.

[Quan] Rahkim called me
and told me that he was gone.

My whole world just,
like, dropped.

I felt like another part
of me had died.

After that,
I just -- I wasn't myself.

Couldn't talk, I couldn't speak,
I couldn't think,

I couldn't feel.

I just wanted my son back.

[voice breaking]
I wanted to figure out
what was going on and why.

Why would they do that?

[crying]

[Quan]
The day he passed away, like,

the whole TikTok crashed,
literally.

And all the For You pages,
all you saw was straight

"Swavy, Swavy, Swavy, Swavy,
Swavy, Swavy.

[Rahkim]
He had an influence on people
all over the world.

I've got messages from people
from Guyana, Puerto Rico,

France, Spain.

That's how you know, like,

he impacted so many people.

[Qua'Naijha] The police took
everybody's statements,

they put together
all the evidence.

They started collecting a file.

At the time, there was a lot
of g*ng activity happening

in Wilmington, leaving a trail

of destruction
throughout the city.

There are several notable gangs,
including NorthPak,

STK, which is "sh**t to k*ll,"
and OMB, short for

"Only My Brothers."

It definitely put
the community on high alert.

So many situations back
to back,

one event after another.

When does it stop?

It floored me.

And I was very devastated.

South Bridge --
this level of crime.

Two murders in like a three,
four day span.

-Young people.
-[g*n shot]

-Young people.
-[g*n shots blare]

This is not
what we were used to.

We start tonight
with this deadly sh**ting

of a 19-year-old man.

I happened to see this report
when it happened.

[reporter]
Matima Miller, known as Swavy,

had millions of followers
on TikTok.

And as I'm watching this,
I'm reminded

of how shameful it really was.

[reporter]
He's now part of a growing
list of people shot and k*lled

in Delaware's most
populous city.

His k*ller is still out there.

[Rahkim]
After Matima was shot,

Quan feared for his life
as well.

That could have easily been
his same fate.

People was looking at me weird,
because it was like,

"Oh, how didn't you die,
but Swavy dies?"

So even to this day, like,
I sit here asking myself, like,

"Why -- why did the guy just
look at me in my face

and didn't do anything to me?"

Quan was the sole witness

of the person
that k*lled Matima that day.

He was a firsthand witness
to a m*rder.

[Qua'Naijha]
But Quan did not wanna tell
the cops what he knew.

And it's crazy,
'cause I literally had
just turned 16

around that time.
So, like, hearing all that --

[g*n shot blares]

...seeing it,

I was scared.
I'd just be trying to avoid it.

Quan was like,
"I just witnessed a k*lling.

I don't want them to come
and get me next."

When you tell the cops stuff
in our community,

you're labeled as a snitch
or a rat.

So he didn't want people to be
looking at him

in a negative light.
So it was a lot of pressure.

So you gotta think all of that
on top of,

"Y'all don't understand, I just
lost my best friend as well."

[Wendy] OK, I have no idea
who this is...

[Qua'Naijha]
A couple days after Teem
passed away,

there was all these clips
over the Internet

of Wendy Williams --

So here he is.

...talking about
my little brother.

[audience chuckle]

[Wendy sighs]

Basically making fun of him.
That's how I felt watching it.

-Clap.
-[scarce clapping]

[Wendy]
Clap if you know who Swavy is.

Well, he's a TikTok star.

He's got more followers
than me.

-2.5 million.
-[audience reacts]

Just comparing Instagram
followers and everybody

in the background laughing,
like, as if he wasn't

a whole person.

But on Instagram,
you have more followers.

He was a good son,
friend, brother,

cousin, you know, to everybody.

He was a leader,
a well-rounded individual

that you made -- you --
a mockery of.

How could you be
so insensitive?

How could you do that knowing
that my son just died?

Swavy and the friends
that were with Swavy jumped him

and tried to k*ll him,

so he had a g*n

and did the k*lling.

She made up a whole storyline
and then basically was like,

"Well, the person that tried
to k*ll got k*lled,"

and none of that happened.

Other one of those stories.

Mm.

On a lighter note,
Bruce Springsteen's daughter is

going to the Olympics.
-[audience cheers]

This young man
was loved and cherished.

To dismiss all of that
and to be that cruel,

cold, and callous.

Shame on you, Wendy!

And shame on those
who thought it was funny.

[Rahkim]
They blindsided our family,
and it was very hurtful,

'cause it was like,
"We're mourning a loved one."

We actually did an interview
on TMZ to say our side,

because ultimately,
like, she broadcast it

in front of millions of people,

and they're getting a tarnished
image of Matima.

That's not the person
that he was.

[Qua'Naijha] I had to put grief
into the back burner.

I'm not gonna sit and let anyone

disrespect
my brother's legacy,

disrespect my family,
and everything we're already

going through.

It took a turn on social media.

It shook the internet.
It shook the internet.

Let's talk about this Wendy
Williams and Swavy situation.

Every single day,
I made a post about her, like,

just basically letting people
know, like, what she said

wasn't true,
how distasteful it was.

People were clipping the things
I was saying and posting it.

Babyface Swavy's little sister
needs your help.

Right now,
she's a one-man army,

spamming every single post

on Wendy Williams'
Instagram page.

I see myself on every
social media blog.

Shade Room, Worldstar.

Everybody was blowing
up her page.

Wendy, you are
on a downward spiral.

What is wrong with you?

People were posting her,
her production,

saying my brother's name,
Justice for Swavy,

Justice for Swavy,
Justice for Swavy.

After it was publicized,
everybody was calling

the Wilmington
Police Department.

They couldn't ignore it.
It wasn't something -- a file

they could just put
to the side.

It was like,
"What happened to Swavy?

"Did y'all find his m*rder?
Did y'all solve the case yet?

What's going on?
Who k*lled him?"

It was literally all day,
every day.

They literally had to take
their phones off of the hooks.

Social media pushed the cops
to be on top of their job.

Social media was on 'em.
We was on 'em.

The community was on 'em.

He wasn't a m*rder case that
could be swept under the rug.

They was going to have
to solve his case.

[Jasmine] What happened next
was significant.

Police say they were able
to paint a picture

of a crime spree.

It started July 1st, when
black Nissan with tinted windows

was stolen.

That same black Nissan was used
in the murders

of both Matima and Quinton.

Also, police were able to link
shell casings used

in Matima's death
to the .38 caliber weapon

used in Quinton's death.

[Qua'Naijha]
The streets was already
talking about what the person

had on and who it was
when Quinton was k*lled.

[g*n shot blares]

So when we found out,
the guy that k*lled my brother

also had on a red
Bag Season hoodie,

it was like,
"OK, this is the guy."

He k*lled Quinton in his own
clothing brand

and also k*lled Teem
in that same brand.

[Jasmine]
The same person m*rder*d
Matima and Quinton.

I said, "Quan, if you know
anything, please," I said,

"Teem would be highly upset
with you if you don't talk.

"Give the information
that you have

so that we can find this guy."

And that's what he did.

I told Rahkim first,
'cause I can't just leave him

out of the blue
of what happened.

Quan sent Rahkim
an Instagram story,

basically saying, like,
"This is who it is."

"This is who shot Matima.

This is who I saw."

Rahkim, he took a screenshot
of that and showed the police.

The person who k*lled
my brother was Israel Lecompte.

[Jasmine]
Clothing played a big part
in identifying the suspect

in this case.

Oftentimes, he was covered up
and a g*n was pointed at them.

Witnesses couldn't see
his face, but they were able

to remember
the distinct clothing

he was wearing.

Police were able to connect
things further.

They corroborated the suspect's
distinct clothing

to his Instagram account,

and they were also able
to recover fingerprints off

of the car that was stolen
that matched Israel's.

[Qua'Naijha]
When they arrested the person
who k*lled my brother,

they did call us and say,
"We have Israel Lecompte

"in custody.

"We are pursuing him
for the m*rder

of Quinton Dorsey
and Matima Miller."

[Rahkim]
I've never heard of Israel
before any of this took place.

There's never really a real
reason to take someone's life,

but we were still trying
to figure out, you know, why.

And we wanted justice
for Matima and Quinton.

The trial started in 2023
and it was just like being

stabbed in the heart
all over again.

We had to see Israel Lecompte
every day in the courtroom

for the next couple months.

[Rahkim]
This person and the people
that he was affiliated with

were committing all types
of horrendous acts of violence.

My name is Joe Grubb,
and I was the lead prosecutor

in the case of State
of Delaware v.

Israel Lecompte.

You can't talk
about Israel Lecompte

without talking about
the NorthPak g*ng,

one of the most dangerous
and notorious gangs

in the entire state ever.

Israel Lecompte
was an active member

of the NorthPak g*ng.

We think Israel Lecompte wanted
to go out and prove his worth

to his fellow g*ng members.

And so he went
on a 10-day crime spree

and took it upon himself
to rob, sh**t, steal,

and promote the g*ng
continuously on Instagram.

Israel Lecompte and NorthPak
would use social media to brag

about who they shot

and who they k*lled
all the time.

If they didn't brag about it
on Instagram, it's like

it didn't even happen.

So for example, moments
after Quinton Dorsey was shot

and k*lled,
there was an Instagram post.

We used that at trial to show
that Izzy was proud

of what he had done
in k*lling Quinton.

Make no mistake about it,
Matima and Quinton were

absolutely innocent victims.

They had no g*ng
affiliation whatsoever.

They went a completely
different direction

with respect to their lives.

Quinton and Matima
were two entrepreneurs.

They were innovators.

Israel Lecompte considered that
a score for his g*ng if he were

to take them out.

And sadly,
that's what he chose to do.

Hands down, social media was
NorthPak and Israel Lecompte's

downfall at trial.

It was what they needed to use
to get respect and clout

from the community, and it was
absolutely what brought them

down and got them
all convicted.

Wilmington is a small city.

And these families
are our neighbors.

Today is a step
toward justice for them.

[Qua'Naijha]
Teem wasn't in the street.
Literally, I'm just dancing.

So why would I think I got
to watch my back to see

if somebody's watching
my Instagram or somebody's going

try to k*ll me
when I go to McDonald's?

Israel thought he would get
clout from it

because I'm k*lling somebody
with a name.

I believe that it was fueled
by jealousy.

"If I don't have it,
if someone else have it,

I gotta get it by any means."

They call it getting out
the muck,

by any means necessary.

Where we come from,

that's the mentality
that people grew up with.

Social media is going
hand-in-hand with g*n violence

'cause people have no sense
of reality.

Everybody think they're living
in a world where if I don't

show it, it didn't happen.

I gotta prove to everybody
else that I'm somebody,

I'm important, I'm of a status.

You get your brownie points,
you get street cred.

You k*lled my baby
for nothing.

Because you had hate
in your heart,

you was just a menace
to society.

He had no reasoning
or remorse.

Jealousy, envy was the reason
why Quinton was m*rder*d.

It's like cancer.

It just spreads.
How do you treat jealousy?

It's very strong
in our community.

How do we change it?
I haven't figured that out yet.

[Quan]
There's a lot of talented
people in Delaware,

but people just don't see it.

They don't see the potential
in their self.

And Swavy used to tell me,
like, "Yo, you got

potential to do something, too."

[Christopher]
These two brothers
should be remembered

as heroes who stood up

in their own gifts,
their own talents,

and they became great.

[Monie]
To be a 19-year-old African
American who influenced people

all over the world,

I don't think
he had to change anything

because he was doing
positive things.

-He was my protector.
-I'm your protector.

Me!

He always protected
everybody that he loved.

[Taun-Yea]
He strived.

He made it.

He done it.

He achieved it.

The only way for me to...

move past it
and help my children heal

so that they aren't broken

is to forgive 'em.

[voice trembling]
But I'm still hurt.

[Rahkim]
Losing people at a young age
like that, it's like it makes

you numb to emotion,
numb to the things around you,

and numb to death itself.

It's something
that has become the norm,

and it shouldn't be
normal at all.

Let's appropriately
appropriate social media.

Let's celebrate each other.

Because at the end of the day,
the hurt, the pain,

the misery that these families
are still going through,

you would not be able
to imagine it.

And if it was them yesterday,

it could be you tomorrow.

Yeah.

Randy's YouTube channel
found this sweet spot

that I found entertaining,

but then, everything changes.

I flip this next coin
and it lands on tails,

there's going to be devastation
and destruction.

[g*n clicks]

[g*n blast]