Master P has paid for the funeral of a 13-year-old Louisville, Kentucky boy who died Saturday in a police chase.
The boy, Ki'Anthony Tyus, was an anti-violence activist. Tyus was moved to reduce gun violence in his community after being shot accidentally when he was nine, according to the Courier-Journal. The grade schooler was riding his bike when he suddenly hit the ground.
"I tried to get up and wondered why I couldn't," Tyus said as he was recuperating from the incident. "I pulled my pant leg up and saw a hole in my leg. It started burning."
The shooter, who was never caught, was believed to have been aiming at a group of older boys playing basketball. Tyus was helped to a hospital, and while he was healing, met Master P, WDRB reports.
Master P had promised to speak with Tyus over the phone, but surprised him with a visit and a pair of new Jordans; Tyus was an avid basketball player, and was very good at the game, according to the rapper.
Saturday, the activist was a passenger in a Lexus SUV that had been reported stolen. The SUV's driver led the police on an extended chase that left two patrol cars wrecked and a number of officers wounded. The chase ended when the driver lost control of the vehicle and hit an electric pole, according to a separate WDRB report. Tyus was killed in the crash. The driver and the other passengers were severely injured.
Master P took to Instagram to voice his love for the Tyus, who he dubbed his “lil soldier” and to vent about violence.
“My 13-year-old lil' soldier didn’t make it,” P wrote in the post. “He got shot two years ago and got killed two days ago. We need to stop this black on black crime.”
In his post, the rapper also gave a shout out to a nonviolence initiative Tyus worked with that used the slogan "We All We Got."
Let by activists Norman Parker and Christopher 2X, Tyus traveled around Louisville sharing his story in formal presentations and in neighborhoods, pleading for people to put down their guns.
He told the Courier-Journal his reason for his activism was simple: "I want to help people not get shot."
2X called Tyus' death "just devastating," according to WHAS, and said, "There's no way to really describe the magnitude of his loss right now."
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