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Hip-hop podcast host charged in fatal NYC concert shooting

Jan 17, 2017 | 10:15 AM

NEW YORK — A hip-hop podcast host has been arrested in connection with a shooting at a popular New York City concert venue last year that left a rapper’s bodyguard dead and two people wounded.

Thirty-one-year-old Daryl Campbell, also known as Taxstone, was charged Monday on a federal weapons possession charge tied to the May 2016 shooting at Irving Plaza in Manhattan just before the rapper T.I. was to perform.

A federal complaint states that DNA supposedly belonging to Campbell was found on the trigger, hand grip and magazine of a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun used in the shooting.

Brooklyn rapper Roland Collins, who performs as Troy Ave, was wounded, along with a friend. Collins’ bodyguard was fatally shot.