D.O. CANNON

'D.O. Cannon' or 'Gerard Fields' (1977 - September 4th 2003) was an American Rapper for the The Inc Record Label. He contributed to ''Irv Gotti Presents...The Remixes'' and on one track in the Ja Rule album, ''Blood In My Eye''. He was mudered at the age of 26 on September 4th, 2003.

Contents

Feud

Death

Life

References

Feud

The Death of Fields came four days after the strikingly similar fatal shooting of a less-accomplished rapper who ran with Murder Inc.'s rivals. Police didn't rule out the possibility that Fields' slaying could be related to the fatal shooting of Shadaha (Jah) Bey, who was often seen with rap superstar 50 Cent's crew, G-Unit.
Bey, 26, was shot to death on the corner of Guy Brewer Blvd. and 104th Ave. in Jamaica, Queens - a few miles from where Fields was killed. Bey's father, Yusef, said his son was a G Unit rapper who worked security for 50 Cent.
Days after they died two memorials with votive candles and graffiti "RIP" scrawls marked the blood-stained sidewalks where Fields and Bey died miles apart.

Death

On the night of Thursday September 4th, Fields was shot at 177th Street and 104th Avenue, just blocks from the house he shared with his grandmother, shortly before midnight. He was shot three times, twice in the chest and once in the leg. As the gunman fled in a cream-colored car, Fields' friends threw the bleeding rapper into a black Volvo and sped to the emergency room of Mary Immaculate Hospital, where they abandoned him before cops arrived, police sources said. Minutes later he was pronounced dead.
Police believed Fields attempted to assault someone earlier in the week and was killed as an act of retribution.

Life

Fields served two prison sentences for armed robbery, including the stickup of a woman in 1994 and a gunpoint mugging of a man a year later. His Grandmother Mary Fields, 68, raised Fields after his mother died of heart problems when he was 11 years old. 10 months before he died he became the father of a boy.

References

http://www.rapnewsdirect.com/0-202-257014-00.html?tag=artistnav
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=32940
D.O. Cannons Myspace www.myspace.com/cjqueens & www.myspace.com/docannon