Nasir Marks, Tommie Frazier, Kanye Pittman, and Kaylin Johnson were all teenagers shot and killed in 2021.
Friends and family embrace at the memorial service for Tommie Frazier III at Mt. Calvary Family Worship Center in July 2021.One was weeks away from graduating high school, another had just earned his driver’s license. Talented athletes and genuine friends, some were their mothers’ only children.All were shot and killed by members of a West Philadelphia-based gang known as the Young Bag Chasers, or YBC, prosecutors said.
A senior at Simon Gratz High School, Frazier spent most of his life in West Philadelphia and was one of four children. He played basketball at the Christie Rec Center in Cobbs Creek, and was known as the jokester of his friend group, Barksdale said. He loved playing Fortnite and had grown a following on YouTube for posting recordings of himself playing games and offering tips. He played football and boxed, and although he liked to dance, he wasn’t very good at it. “He couldn’t catch the rhythm,” Pittman joked.
Police have said it’s not completely clear why YBC targeted Pittman. His mother’s understanding is that Kanye had gotten into a fight with a cousin of someone in the group and beat him up pretty badly. They wanted revenge.
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