Twitter tiff leads to Murder

Jameg Blake, 22, is accused of shooting and killing Kwame Dancy  after the two childhood friends got into a tiff on Twitter. Now the tweets sent by the two men may prove to be key evidence in the case that follows.


Dancy, who was studying to be a nurse, was killed by a shotgun blast to the neck Dec. 1 across from Lenox Terrace in Harlem, where he grew up with his father.
Blake - who lived on the same floor as Dancy, one floor below Paterson in the luxury high-rise on W. 132nd St. - was arrested two days later.

Possibly attempting to establish a cover, Blake also showed up at the hospital after the shooting and hugged Dancy's bereaved father. Besides their Twitter-beef, the two had fought previously, and publicly, over a woman. The victim's mother was shocked to learn that the long-time pal fired the shot that killed her son. "They were good friends, that's the sad part about it," she said. "Obviously, I didn't know him like I thought I did. I just want to ask him. 'Why? How could you?'

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