An African would-be rapper has been jailed for 20 months for opening fire on a car outside a Melbourne pub while banned from owning a gun.
Sudanese thug Deng Week, who goes by the rap name Dmunni, fled to Adelaide along with a co-offender under false names 11 hours after the shooting in the carpark of the Millers Inn Hotel in Altona North at 2am on September 12 last year.
The two men were arrested in Victor Harbor less than a week later and extradited to Melbourne, and Week pleaded guilty in the County Court to discharging a firearm at a vehicle with reckless disregard for the safety of any person and being a prohibited person using a gun, the Herald Sun reported.
The court heard Week and two co-offenders turned up at the hotel in a dark BMW and put a bag on the car’s roof after getting out, and then drove off before returning a short time later to look for the bag.
They were caught on CCTV in the pokie lounge asking the venue if they could use the security system to look for the bag, and then went back outside to the carpark.
A white sedan then drove slowly past the group, one of the men took at a gun from a shoulder bag and pointed it at the car window. Week then grabbed the gun and fired six shots at the vehicle as it drove away, hitting nearby Altona Library twice.
Week has 1,360 subscribers on his Dmunni YouTube channel, and his most popular video, Spark It, has 192,000 views.
The sentence comes after the shooting deaths of two other African rappers in Melbourne over the past year – a 20-year-old named “Kreepa” who was gunned down in Derrimut in September, and Pal “Peezy” Bidong who was shot dead in North Melbourne in November.
All three rappers have lyrics glorifying gang violence, and in his last video Bidong also rapped about drug taking, being under police surveillance, and having friends in jail for assault.
Header image: Left, right, Deng Week (YouTube).
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