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Cam'ron Elaborates on DC Shooting
Saturday, November 5, 2005 By: Michael Ivey
In a statement made twenty four hours before an affidavit exposed a DC Protective Service officer as an eye witness to his shooting, Cameron “Killa Cam” Giles expressed his doubts about the botched car jacking theory.
“For Howard [University's] homecoming, a bunch of people is outside. I don't think anybody would do a car jacking that randomly in front of that many people.” The Diplomat Records CEO and headline rapper was shot around 12am October 23rd, on his way to Love nightclub. Cam was caught off guard because he grew accustomed to fans and aspiring artists accosting him. “I seen [the assailant] in my peripheral, but I didn't pay too much attention to it. When he hopped out I seen him waving something. I wasn't sure if it was a CD or whatever. I looked when he came in front of my car and seen it was a gun.” Cam initially thought it was an undercover cop, reasoning, “Money is waving a gun in front of a lot of people here. I'm looking like, what this dude is bugging for?” The rest of the story is the stuff of hood legend: gunman shoots through Cam’s car, the bullets going through both his arms; rapper proceeds to drive himself to the ER and walk out smugly the same day, surrounded by his team. Besides the fact that his blue Lamborghini broke down and he was driven to Howard University Hospital by a citizen, other new revelations include Cam’s claim that he did things like drive the wrong way down a one way street to get police attention, but “it seemed like no cops was around. That's all I was thinking about. I wasn't thinking about [death] because I didn't feel like I got hit in my stomach or my chest or my head or anything.”
A “Protective Service” officer witnesses the shooting, but no police respond. A gunman attempts what seems like a car jacking, on a busy college party night. The pieces of this story may lead to a much more complicated puzzle than the public imagined. Cam suffers from a lack of feeling in his right ring and pinky fingers due to nerve damage. He recently released a remix of “Get ‘Em Daddy”, rhyming confidently about his survival.
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