22-year-old kills childhood friend after exchanging heated messages on the micro-blogging site
22-year-old kills childhood friend after exchanging heated messages on the micro-blogging siteIt started as a simple Twitter fight, 140-character spurts of anger by two young men who grew up together.
But the tough talk exploded out of cyberspace and onto the streets of Harlem, where a college student was gunned down.
Now tweets sent by victim Kwame Dancy (22) and accused killer Jameg Blake (22) could become key evidence in a murder trial.
Dancy's mother, Madeline Smith, is appalled Internet chest-thumping could have led to blood spilled on the sidewalk.
"That's not a reason to shoot somebody," she said last week. "That's crazy. I don't know what's going on with that Twitter thing."
Dancy, who was studying to be a nurse, was killed by a shotgun blast to the neck December 1 in Harlem, where he grew up with his father.
Blake who lived on the same floor as Dancy, in a luxury high-rise was arrested two days later.
Charged with murder, he pleaded not guilty and was held without bail.
Police sources said the two had a rocky relationship and the Twitter messages they posted u2014 with friends jumping in only made it worse.
Hours before the shooting, Dancy may have taunted Blake with a tweet "Niggas is lookin for u don't think I won't give up ya address for a price betta chill asap!"
Blake's Twitter account is also full of online disses, though only one tweet mentions Dancy by name: "R.I.P. Kwame" on December 3.
Messages probedA police source said the messages may be subpoenaed to bolster the theory that there was bad blood between the two old pals.
But the Twitter fight wasn't the only strain; Dancy and Blake fought last summer over a girl, sources said.
Despite the insults and fisticuffs, when Blake was collared, Dancy's mom was stunned.
"They were good friends, that's the sad part about it," said Smith, who is divorced from Dancy's dad and lives in Brooklyn.
"Obviously, I didn't know him like I thought I did. I just want to ask him. 'Why? How could you?"
