The New York Post is reporting that on Wednesday 36-year-old rapper, MC G. Dep, born Trevell Coleman, walked into the 25th precinct in Harlem and confessed to killing a man in 1993.
“I shot and killed someone 17 years ago,” he reportedly told an officer at the precinct.
According to the Post report, Dep (pictured above) told police that he was riding a bike when he approached his victim, 32-year-old John Henkel, on Park Avenue and East 114th street near the James Weldon Johnson housing projects.
Dep, just 18 years old at the time, was planning to rob Henkel, but when he resisted, shot him three times in the chest with a .40-caliber hand gun.
He then fled from the crime scene and threw the gun into the East River. Henkel was pronounced dead at St. Luke’s hospital.
Henkel was rushed to St. Luke’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
When the detective reviewed the cold-case file, he was amazed to discover that Coleman’s tale matched up.
Coleman, who has racked up more than 25 arrests since 2003 for drugs, burglary and grand larceny, was charged with murder, and is being held without bail.
“My client is presumed innocent, and the case is going to grand jury,” said Coleman’s lawyer, Michael Alperstein.
Coleman, who rapped under the name “G-Dep,” was signed in 1998 to a $350,000, five-album deal with Combs’ Bad Boy Records. His first album, “Child of the Ghetto,” was released in 2001.
The song “Let’s Get It” featured Coleman trading rhymes with Combs and fellow Bad Boy artist Black Rob.
Coleman no longer has ties to the label, a spokewoman said.
