Rick Ross' Friend Was Killed Over The Weekend!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:12 pm

23 year-old, up-and-coming rapper Toro, who has appeared on the
track "Ride" with Rick Ross, was fatally shot in Miami over the
weekend.

According to the Miami Herald, the Opa-locka bred rapper (born
Derek Johnson) was inside a Cadillac Escalade on Saturday (October 18)
morning around 4 a.m. with another man in Northern Miami-Dade County,
as a silver sedan passed by riddling the vehicle with multiple bullets.

After the gunshots went off, Toro's vehicle excelled forward bursting
through the wall of a local home. Nearly destroying the house, the
family who inhabited the residence came out unharmed.

While both men were hit, Toro's friend was the only survivor, escaping with a minor injury.

Toro's grandmother Addie Baldwin is still in disbelief from losing her grandchild.

"I'm in a state of shock," Baldwin told the Herald. "He was easy going, everybody loved him -- we thought."

Despite his grandmother's love and admiration for him, Toro prided himself as a rapper inspired by infamous criminals.

"I'm not influenced by rappers I'm influenced by gangsters," he wrote on his MySpace page.

ITS A COLD WORLD ROSS...