Authorities
are investigating the recent deaths of two members of the Flint, Mich. rap group
Skanibino Mob.
Deion J.L. "Bone Skanless" Smith was gunned down Friday (July 28) in
a hail of AK-47 gunfire outside his home on Alma Avenue. The 32-year-old rapper’s
fellow Skanbino member Marcus Mosley (AKA Young Kee) was found shot to death on
Lawndale Avenue near Dayton Street on Monday (July 31). Although
they haven’t ruled out a connection between the killings, police cite no evidence
linking the crimes. A woman who was with Smith is expected to survive the ordeal,
despite being critically wounded.No
arrests have been made in the case. However, authorities impounded a car that
matched the description of the vehicle used in Smith’s slaying after a man abandoned
it at a gas station Sunday morning after seeing police.Investigators
are believed to have information pointing to a suspect in "at least one of
the shootings," Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton told the Flint
Journal.
Smith survived being shot five times at close range and was acquitted of a murder
charge in 2002 in the
shooting death of a Flint man. The rapper was on probation for gun
possession when he was killed.The
32-year-old Mosley also ran afoul of the law when he was sentenced to 4 years
in prison in 1994 for cocaine possession. In 2001, he was caught with a gun in
his waistband during a drug bust, in which police also found $20,000 hidden in
a football.Mosley
denied having the gun but was sentenced to a year of probation in 2005. On
July 13, Smith attended a funeral for his 5-year-old niece, NiYauna S. Jones,
who was shot and killed by unknown assailants while riding with a relative who
was test driving a new car.