Stringer's connection, Leech, had his cousin, Mugs, strangle D'Angelo in prison and stage the death as a suicide. He organized a contract killing through a connection in Washington, DC. When D'Angelo cut himself off from his family, Stringer grew worried that he might turn on them. He used the relationship to keep watch on the young Barksdale, growing concerned at D'Angelo's increasingly hostile attitude towards his uncle. Stringer had secretly become involved with Donette, D'Angelo's ex-girlfriend. Avon was unable to find a decent alternative despite suggesting connections in Philadelphia and Atlanta and Stringer grew desperate. The Dominicans refused to deal with Avon, believing that he might have informed on them in exchange for a lighter sentence. Stringer faces a serious problem: the Barksdale crew's usual supplier, a Dominican named Roberto, was under investigation by the DEA. Bell rewarded Bodie's loyalty and promoted him to run their operation at Tower 221 in Franklin Terrace. After D'Angelo learns of Wallace's murder, Bell abandoned D'Angelo. He also ordered Wee-Bey to murder Nakeesha Lyles.Īfter Avon was arrested Bell assumed de facto leadership of the Barksdale Organization. Bell learned from Bodie Broadus, D'Angelo's second-in-command, that Wallace had returned to working for D'Angelo. Bell attempted to identify Wallace's whereabouts from D'Angelo. D'Angelo, realizing the threat to Wallace, informed Bell that Wallace had left the drug trade. To foil wiretaps, Stringer ordered D'Angelo's crew to abandon the nearby payphones and walk longer distances to other phones instead.īell ordered the murder of Wallace, a witness to the kidnapping of Brandon. Bell persuaded Avon to give up his pager so that he could act as a buffer between Avon and the rest of their operation.Īs Avon and Bell became suspicious of a potential law enforcement investigation, Bell attempted to identify potential informants and minimize wiretap success. He instructed D'Angelo to withhold pay from his subordinates for two weeks, believing the ones who did not request money were being paid as informants. They left Brandon's body in the low-rise housing projects.Īfter Omar murdered Stinkum and wounded Wee-Bey, Bell advised Avon to offer Omar a temporary truce. Avon initially rejected Bell's suggestion, but after Omar nearly killed him, he agreed with Bell's advice. Posing as police officers, the four abducted Brandon and, in retribution for the robbery and to locate Omar, tortured Brandon to death. Stringer, along with Wee-Bey, Stinkum, and Bird, me Wallace and Poot at the arcade. (' The Target')Īfter Omar Little, Brandon Wright, and John Bailey robbed 'The Pit', Bell instructed D'Angelo to check his underlings for a potential informant.īell took Stinkum to survey Avon's new territory with Wee-Bey and Marquis 'Bird' Hilton. Stringer received word from D'Angelo that Wallace and Poot had spotted Omar's boyfriend Brandon at a local arcade. The next day, Bell demoted D'Angelo to lieutenant of 'The Pit'.

Later that night, Bell informed Barksdale that 'the cop who tried to pin Gerard on 'Little' Kevin' attended the trial.

Their presence served to ensure witness Nakeesha Lyles would retract her earlier identification of D'Angelo. He grew up in West Baltimore alongside his childhood friends Avon Barksdale and Roland 'Wee-Bey' Brice.īell attended the homicide trial of Avon's nephew and lieutenant D'Angelo Barksdale alongside enforcers Roland 'Wee-Bey' Brice, Savino Bratton and Anton 'Stinkum' Artis.

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