/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-infobae.s3.amazonaws.com/public/Z6WRN2GFXJG3NKCQRXC3J6UCG4.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1 "An amateur rapper who was looking for fame and fortune hired a hitman to kill his mother and inherit his savings")
Eight months after his mother was shot dead, Qaw’mane Wilson arrived at a bank of Chicago in its Ford Mustang.
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Wearing a leopard print jacket, the aspiring rapper, known as “Young QC”, He got out of his custom car with seagull wing doors, and explained to a camera that was recording that he was about to withdraw thousands of dollars from his bank account. Then, in the same video, he appears throwing wads of cash into the air, while dozens of people shout euphorically.
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“[No sé] who is he but he gave us money as if nothing”, An alleged fan wrote on Twitter in 2013, in a post filed by DNAinfo Chicago.
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That was just one of the many ways Wilson spent the USD 90,000 which he inherited from his mother after she was murdered, according to Cook County prosecutors. He photographed himself with lots of bills at a Burberry store, in a massage room, at home, on the carpet, and seemed to delight in his new wealth.
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Wilson was very eager to spend the money, according to prosecutors, Because killing his mother was his idea.
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Last Friday, the 30-year-old was sentenced to 99 years in prison, after authorities discovered that he hired a hired killer to kill his own mother, Yolanda Holmes, in 2012, and thus be able to inherit their wealth.
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The hitman, Eugene Spencer, was sentenced to 100 years. Both he and Wilson were convicted of first-degree murder last March.
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“The word is ‘matricide’, which means murder of the mother herself”Said the Cook County judge on Friday, Stanley Sacks “What he wanted, his mother gave it to him. A car. A job. You could say it was spoiled. She gave life to Qaw’mane, and ended up thanking him“.
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When asked if he had anything to say, the murderer said: “I just want to say that nobody loved my mother more than me. She was all I had. “
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Wilson’s arrest in 2013 surprised the whole family. According to his relatives, his mother loved him. He bought a Camaro and designer clothes, as reported by DNAinfo Chicago. He also did his best to keep him away from gangs, and so he didn’t follow in his father’s footsteps: Jeffrey Todd Wilson, a former leader of a West Side band, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in 1993
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“I’m stunned because I never thought he would be able to do that to his mother“, said Ayonna Anderson, close friend of Yolanda Holmes. “I don’t know if he got to the point where he loved money more than his own mother“
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At the time of his arrest, authorities said Wilson admitted that he had conspired against his mother for “Financial gains”, But said he never intended for her to die. “It was supposed to be a robbery, ”He explained to the detectives.
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But the hitman, SpencerHe told investigators that Wilson ordered him to kill her and offered USD 3,500 because of work. In the early hours of the morning of September 2, 2012, Spencer broke into Holmes’s apartment, and found her sleeping next to her boyfriend, Curtis Wyatt. Spencer shot fatally and stabbed Holmes, before Wyatt took him out of the apartment, the Sun-times. Wyatt later identified Spencer as the killer.
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Wilson, the sole beneficiary of Holmes life insurance policies, inherited more than USD 90,000 in savings and life insurance, however, he began to spend it quickly.
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He showed puppies he bought for USD 1,500, a new collection of Air Jordans, as well as weapons, marijuana and gold chains, he said. DNAinfo Chicago. He filmed a music video for a rap song, which went up to his 108,000 YouTube subscribers. He started a new YouTube show called “The Nick Story,” described as a “family drama.” And in videos and selfies, he flaunted his new Mustang and flashy watches. He withdrew almost USD 70,000 from his mother’s accounts in the months after his death, according to the Sun-times.
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Publicly, Young QC spoke at least once about his mother’s death, before he was arrested. He performed at a funeral for a teenager who was shot dead in 2013: “My mother, she was a woman from the neighborhood. A man entered our house and murdered her, just to steal“
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During their trial in 2019, prosecutors played the video of Wilson in which he appears throwing his mother’s money after he made the withdrawal from the bank, and another video of him in front of a mirror with a gold chain and USD bills 100
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“I am not playing, man. I do this for real. I have no problem giving back, ”He said just before throwing his mother’s money at the strangers who were passing through the street.
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Upon leaving the courtroom, after being convicted, Holmes’s aunt, Sondra Jackson, He told the Washington Post: “After all this, we still don’t understand why he did it.“
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