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apartment. The police had received an anonymous phone call earlier that evening and responded, discovering Goines in the living room of the apartment and Sailor's body in the kitchen. Both Goines and Sailor had sustained multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and head.
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in order to avoid having the sales of Goines's work suffer due to too many books releasing at once. The book dealt with an anti-hero character named after
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1190:Deaths by firearm in Michigan
619:List of homicides in Michigan
539:Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter
266:under the name Al C. Clark.
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814:Allen, Eddie (2004-03-24).
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178:Early life and family
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478:Machiavelli
432:Cry Revenge
294:Los Angeles
160:Al C. Clark
80:Al C. Clark
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1000:Death List
875:genius.com
850:genius.com
797:0312383517
758:August 17,
718:2023-02-05
692:August 17,
630:References
607:Daddy Cool
581:Snoop Dogg
470:West Coast
440:Daddy Cool
342:Death List
213:Adult life
207:Korean War
166:writer of
117:Death List
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46:1936-12-15
1086:Swamp Man
1030:Dopefiend
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272:pseudonym
203:Air Force
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613:See also
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498:Ludacris
476:writes "
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327:Kenyatta
262:Kenyatta
238:Westerns
196:enslaved
147:Whoreson
89:Novelist
77:Pen name
585:Ja Rule
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