![]() ![]() Palu: "I feel that organized crime groups pose a greater risk to each one of us on a daily basis than terrorists or the Taliban. Traveling the length of the border, working on both sides, he covered key cartel territory as well as government-controlled areas. After covering Afghanistan for more than five years, he returned to North America to cover the bloody drug-related crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border. Other perhaps less meaningful connections were that they both drove Porsches and, at the time of their deaths, were both gearing up to release new music.Photographer Louie Palu is no stranger to conflict photography. Bundles had ties with Jim Jones’ Byrd Gang crew, while Chinx was famously connected to French Montana, co-founder of Coke Boys Records. In addition, both rappers had connections to other high profile artists. Chinx was at Brooklyn’s Club Red Wolf while back in 2007, Stack Bundles was reportedly at Stereo nightclub in Manhattan. ![]() So, what are the similarities in their murders? Well, both artists were at local nightclubs just hours before their deaths. ![]() And I just think if a person commits a crime as harsh as killing, and they think they got away with it, they will surface and do it again.” The Resemblances In Chinx & Stack Bundles’ Deaths “I really think they could be related,” Ulmer said. Speaking with the New York Daily News recently, Ronald Ulmer, the older brother of Stack Bundles, also thinks there’s likely to be a connection. The police aren’t the only ones who believe the murders could be linked, either. In lieu of them driving him around, the rapper solicited two of his security guards to drive in front of him, leaving Chinx to drive himself around that night for an undisclosed reason. “They were friends, so we’re looking at all hip-hop angles.”Īccording to the New York Daily News, police say that Chinx breached his security protocol around the time he was shot. “They were friends, Stack Bundles and Chinx,” Boyce said. At the time of Bundles’ murder (which is yet to be solved), Chinx was serving four years on robbery and crack cocaine drug charges. ![]() Stack, whose real name is Rayquon Elliott, was gunned down near the lobby of his Redfern Houses residence in Far Rockaway, Queens in June 2007. Interesting developments broke later that day when New York Police Department Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce announced that his department is considering the possibility that Chinx’s death was connected with the murder of friend and fellow rapper Stack Bundles. However, the following day (May 19), the NYPD said that no arrests had been made and that the investigation was still very much active. On Monday (May 18), it was reported that the NYPD’s Elite SWAT team raided a house on 2436 Beach Channel Drive just hours after Chinx’s murder and took three men into custody. Since then, questions and speculation are rampant, regarding Chinx’s killer(s). We are Kings and Queens and we are under attack.” We need to understand that we are Kings and Queens. “We are seriously under attack like never before. ![]()
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