Black celebrities who have killed someone

Don King

Don King (Cleveland Police Dept. Mugshot)
Don King (Cleveland Police Dept. mug shot)

Don King is a legend in the world of boxing, having managed and promoted such great fighters as Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, George Foreman and Evander Holyfield. During the 1950s, King ran an illegal gambling operation out of a record store. King killed two men 13 years apart. The first was Hillary Brown, who King shot because Brown was trying to rob him. Then in 1966, King was found guilty of stomping to death an employee, Sam Garrett, who owed him $600.


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