Death
In a 2010 interview with Donald Phinazee, he commented on what led up to the death of Lamont Coleman
There was something that went down with a dude out here with my middle brother, "Big Lee", and, uh, Lee went upstate for five years. It was a little problem like I just said, "divide and conqueror" between the fellas and, uh, Lee went upstate, then I went upstate, and then sent word to do something . He sent word to somebody else to do something, but Lamont went with him, which he shouldn't have. It didn't go down the way it should have and they seen Lamont face. So, uh, both of us is gone, and was out here by himself. And so you can't get one brother, you get the other one. That's it in a nutshell. —Donald Phinazee,Coleman was killed in the doorway of 45 West 139th Street in Harlem on February 15, 1999 after being shot nine times in the face and chest. Gerard Woodley, one of Coleman's childhood friends, was arrested in May for the crime. At the time of his death, Coleman had two brothers in prison. "It's a good possibility it was retaliation for something brother did, or believed he had done," said a spokesperson for the NYPD. Woodley was later released, and the murder case remains unsolved.
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