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Calitri Reiko Boone

Age 17

Memphis, Tennessee

Basketball king raps his last verse

The video for his song “Back to the East” had been viewed over 23,000 times on YouTube, getting him closer to his dream of being a professional rapper.  

The 2017 tournament MVP at Hamilton High School, he was also king of the basketball court.

On September 24, 2018, Calitri Reiko Boone, 17, also known as rapper “Two3,” was left lying in a pool of his own blood after a fight between a group of girls over a boy escalated to gun violence at the Cane Creek Apartments in Memphis, Tennessee. Somebody fired 40 to 50 shots, killing Calitri and two others. His friends created Two3 T-shirts to honor his memory.

By Mary Claire Molloy · Age 18
Meet the Reporters

More than 80 musicians

Taveon Donte' Brooks

Basketball point guard, would-be rapper

Raydale Hill

Can no longer create his music

Elijah Foster

Dope Boy Gang. One less member.

Vicente Valero III

He was a modern Renaissance man

Beverly McBride

Purple hair, just like her dad

Ricky Ryon Willis III

YouTuber was destined for great things

Ramon Enriquez Barragan

Born, raised, died in Garden City

Robert Spencer Biggers Jr.

Local rapper who loved his familyi

Trevon Fareed Richardson

College, football, a scholarship. All lost.

James Claggion IV

Left hometown for fame in Atlanta

Zachary Mulford

Summer job turns into winter grief

Bryan Portales Escalante

Phone, wallet, shoes and, life — gone

Darion Gordon

Sixteen years erased by one bullet

Ke’Andre Johnson

Cut off after only one verse

Kaileigh Lin Collier

Was “more beautiful than she knew”

Carnandez A. Davis

New family never to be whole

Taylor Hayes

A star on her karaoke machine

Arthur Roger Holloway III

His obituary ran in two states

Montrell Anthony Mouzon

His dream of witnessing motocross shattered

Brandon Nash Hammett

‘The music master’ killed before college