Teenage queen of Chicago's gangland who 'became a killer at 14 to avenge her brother's murder' and was gunned down on the streets she ruled just three years later.
Gakirah Barnes, 17, has since become a mythical figure online, immortalized in YouTube memorials and rap videos as 'Lil Snoop', she was associated with the Fly Boy Gang in Chicago's South Side since her early teens and is purported to have killed rival gang members, at a tender age of 14.
She was referred to in rap songs as 'Young Killa' and given the nickname 'Lil Snoop'. Gakirah was shot nine times in the chest, neck and jaw by a hooded gunman.
Shontell Brown, Gakirah Barnes' mother described her as a funny and sweet graduate who loved music and 'was liked by everyone', but to the gangs of Chicago's notorious South Side, she was a 'young killa' who went by the names 'Tyquanassassin' and 'Tookaville’kirah', according to the in MailOnline
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