The Chronicles of Mrs. Make It Happen

Nelson Mandela has passed away at the age of 95!

2013-12-05T17:11:00.000-05:00

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Whitney Houston Funeral (Live Stream)

2012-02-18T05:17:00.000-05:00

Click here for the link to view the services, starts at noon: Whitney Houston Home Going Service

Whitney has arrived in Newark...

2012-02-14T03:28:00.000-05:00

Here she is, Little Miss Blue Ivy Carter!

2012-02-10T18:51:00.000-05:00

It's official--Mama Jones releases her...“Psychotic”

2012-02-09T13:08:00.000-05:00

Amber Rose, is she really ready for the fame?

2012-01-14T05:12:00.000-05:00

From Sue's Rendezvous to now Pop Singer, hmmm... I am not sure if Amber Rose is ready for the "Fame" but it is a catchy easy track to dance to in the club.

Little Nia going in singing Earth, Wind and Fire... She is AWESOME! LOL

2010-01-08T01:57:00.000-05:00

NUH UHHHHHHHH!!! SOME CHICK SHOWS UP TO THE CLUB . . . CARRYING A BOTTLE OF CHEAP CHAMPAGNE . . . AND WEARING A WEDDING DRESS!!!

2010-01-05T23:40:00.000-05:00

Desperate Housewives at last

2010-01-05T01:50:00.001-05:00

The continuance of the deadly plane crash came onSunday

The Corner Wire 1010 WOLB Launching in 2010, B-More Stand up!

2010-01-04T20:18:00.004-05:00

The Corner Wire wires in some heavy hitters for their 2010 relaunch!!!!!

2010-01-04

By The CornerWire/ TreeSean Demetris

Tree commissions Shakira Hogan-Dyke F.D. and Dreko as board members, and creative and lead consultants of programming for the Corner Wire Radio Show!!!!

The newly launched radio show set to air on 1010 WOLB in Baltimore MD, The Corner Wire is sparing no expense on talent to ensure that the shows mission is received by and attractive to the people of the city of Baltimore. Known most notably for the Emmy winning series "The Wire" on mega network HBO. The Shows Aim is to give the people, who's stories were depicted and displayed on television receive a valid community voice that speaks an honest tune of the inner city social concerns.

"To do this," says Tree, "I had to go back in and recruit my heavy hitters, I had to make sure I had the right people on the team." First up, was Ms. Shakira Hogan an honors graduate of Berkeley College, member of two honor societies, inventor of a retailing method currently patent pending with the USPTO, Fashion Therapist to major hip hop lyricist NOE, and Fashion Editor for Corner Store Magazine alongside all celebrity columnists such as Russell Simmons, Ed Lover, Damon John, Roxy Reynolds to name a few. Next was Dreko, Label CEO of Arsinist Records, and Hip Hop Artist himself with his industry reach extending to 95 North and South. Dreko's influence is extraordinary and he is definitely celebrated as the nucleus of the independent hip hop circuit from Baltimore to DC and beyond.

"We have a lot of work ahead of us" they say in almost unison, but we look forward to intense community benefit as far as businesses and independent talents of Baltimore who have too long gone without proper media recognition. Shakira says, "We look forward to exposing the talent Baltimore has to offer to greater networks. There is so mush more that Baltimore offers to this country and the universe as a whole, other than "The Wire."

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Civil Rights Hero 15 plus later on the other side of the justice system... WTF? Please read.

2010-01-04T19:24:00.000-05:00

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(Jan. 4) -- Bobby DeLaughter, the prosecutor who secured the conviction in the infamous Medgar Evers Mississippi murder case, is himself now headed to prison.

It was DeLaughter's dogged 1994 prosecution and the subsequent conviction of Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith that helped trigger the reopening of dozens of civil rights cold cases.

DeLaughter became an instant hero of the civil rights movement. Alec Baldwin portrayed him in the 1996 movie, "Ghosts of Mississippi," and his closing statement was once dubbed one of the greatest closing arguments in modern law.

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Bobby DeLaughter, who is best known for successfully prosecuting a white supremacist in the 1963 murder of Medgar Evers, was to begin serving an 18-month prison sentence Monday for lying to the FBI during a corruption probe. Here, DeLaughter appears in court July 30 in Aberdeen, Miss.

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"Is it ever too late to do the right thing?" DeLaughter told the jury of eight blacks and four whites. "For the sake of justice and the hope of us as a civilized society, I sincerely hope and pray that it's not."

DeLaughter would go on to become a state judge in 2002. His years in the robe came to an end in 2009, when DeLaughter pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for lying to an FBI agent in a far-reaching corruption probe that has rocked Mississippi's judicial system.

When DeLaughter was sentenced in November, Byron De La Beckwith's son sat in the chamber wearing a Confederate flag pin on his red blazer. His father had also worn a Confederate pin during the 1994 trial.

DeLaughter is to begin serving his 18-month prison sentence today at a facility in Kentucky.

"The man has now been destroyed, politically and economically. It's that serious," said Charles Evers, the brother of Medgar Evers.

He said he is trying to raise money to help pay DeLaughter's expenses while he's in prison. "What can we do but fight for a man who fought for us?" he said. "I want DeLaughter to know I'm behind him 100 percent."

DeLaughter's attorney, Tom Durkin, refused CNN's request to speak to the prosecutor-turned-judge ahead of his incarceration.

"Bobby DeLaughter remains a civil rights hero, and nothing is going to tarnish that," Durkin said. "The penalty he's paying is enormous, and I think it's sad and unfortunate. But that's simply the way it is."

Over the past month, CNN spoke with more than a dozen lawyers in Mississippi about DeLaughter's fall from grace. They paint a picture of an ambitious man with a brilliant legal mind who ran afoul of the law -- of friends betraying friends and of big-time money corrupting the system. Some take delight in his downfall; others call it a tragedy that has stained the legal community.

In the end, the lawyers said, DeLaughter trusted one man too much: his mentor, Ed Peters, who exploited their friendship and then turned on DeLaughter to avoid prison.

"This is a Shakespearean tragedy in the sense that a person falls from grace due to their own character defects -- in this case, misplaced trust in a friend and, perhaps, some combination of ambition and hubris," said Matt Steffey, a law professor at Mississippi College School of Law.

The story of DeLaughter going from civil rights hero to convicted felon is complicated, involving years of contentious litigation in his courtroom.

At the heart of the case is Dickie Scruggs, a high-powered lawyer who made tens of millions of dollars in tobacco and asbestos litigation. Scruggs is the brother-in-law of former Sen. Trent Lott and is now serving seven years in prison for trying to influence Mississippi judges, including DeLaughter.

According to prosecutors, Scruggs wanted to get to DeLaughter through his mentor, Peters, to try to influence DeLaughter's ruling in a high-stakes case, potentially worth $15 million. Peters received $1 million in illicit payments as compensation for his actions, prosecutors say. Peters was granted immunity in exchange for his cooperation.

"Mississippi would like to shake its image of being tied to civil rights crimes and the good ole boy network, and we see these two things overlap here," Steffey said.

"It's enormously unfortunate for a person like Judge DeLaughter who, at the very least, accomplished heroic things with bringing Byron De La Beckwith to justice. And it's tragic for the people of Mississippi -- that the end story here is that he is a corrupt judge in prison."

DeLaughter has denied taking any money in the case or that he was improperly influenced. In his guilty plea, he admits to only obstruction of justice; the more serious charges of involvement in a bribery scheme and mail fraud conspiracy were dismissed as part of the deal.

"To me, he is a tragic figure because he had a good career and he threw it away," said attorney Bill Kirksey. "He became an embarrassment to the legal community, to the judicial community and, I would hope, to himself."

Kirksey has an ax to grind with DeLaughter. He was one of the attorneys representing the client who stood to gain millions in the case at hand.

Kirksey and DeLaughter also trained under the same attorney several decades ago; Kirksey believes DeLaughter turned his back on everything they learned.

"Bobby DeLaughter betrayed every single oath he ever took. He betrayed the whole system of justice that we live by," Kirksey said.

"You measure a man by the whole of his life, not part of it. When the measure of the man is that he's dishonest in the end, then you have to wonder why he did anything in the beginning."

Merrida Coxwell was one of two lawyers who represented De La Beckwith in the 1994 trial. He has known DeLaughter for three decades, first as a defense attorney, then a prosecutor and finally as a judge.

"Quite frankly, I thought he was a very moderate, straight-down-the-line judge," he said.

He was shocked when allegations first surfaced. For a judge to be caught up in such a scandal, Coxwell said, is unfathomable. "If you can't have justice inside the justice system, then it's no good at all."

Morris Dees, the co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, represented Myrlie Evers, the widow of Medgar Evers -- the NAACP leader who was gunned down in his driveway on June 12, 1963.

He says only one man had the guts to seek prosecution in the case when two previous trials years before ended without convictions.

"If Bobby DeLaughter hadn't been around, it would never have happened. I can guarantee you that," Dees said. "It was the first modern-day prosecution of one of these old civil-rights-era murders, and it resulted in the prosecution and convictions of a large number later."

DeLaughter's bravery in seeking justice in the Evers case, Dees said, makes it tough to swallow his more recent failings as a judge. "Certainly, when a judge is put in prison and pleads guilty," Dees said, "it certainly tarnishes his legal and judicial reputation."

Charles Evers said he will continue fighting for the man who fought so valiantly for his brother. "We will do whatever's necessary to help him get over his dilemma, and I'll say that over and over again."

Evers blasted prosecutors for offering immunity to Ed Peters, DeLaughter's mentor who avoided jail time even though he was the one accepting illicit payments. "The man who squealed on him should be going to jail," Evers said.

"I hope that some day justice will be fair and equal. ... It's not fair and equal in this case."

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President Obama Names Transgender Appointee to Commerce Department - Political Punch

2010-01-04T17:40:00.001-05:00

President Obama Names Transgender Appointee to Commerce Department

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President Obama recently named Amanda Simpson to be a Senior Technical Advisor to the Commerce Department.

In a statement, Simpson, a member of the National Center for Transgender Equality's board of directors, said that "as one of the first transgender presidential appointees to the federal government, I hope that I will soon be one of hundreds, and that this appointment opens future opportunities for many others."

While Simpson is clearly one of the first transgender presidential appointees, Democratic officials say they're unsure if she is the very first one.

The White House had no comment on her appointment.

A 2004 YWCA "Woman on the Move," Simpson recently served as Deputy Director in Advanced Technology Development at Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona.

At Raytheon, Simpson -- a former test pilot who had worked for the company for more than a generation -- transitioned from male to female and was instrumental in convincing the military contractor to add gender identity and expression to its equal employment opportunity policy.

She later ran unsuccessfully for the Arizona House of Representatives and was a delegate for then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, to the Democratic National Convention in 2008.

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Throwback! Monica So Gone with Derek Luke sexy ass... back then anyway!

2010-01-03T02:21:00.000-05:00

Throwback! Forever my Lady by Jodeci

2010-01-03T00:36:00.000-05:00

Throwback! Jodeci Love you for life!

2010-01-03T00:32:00.000-05:00

Throwback! Sista Brand New... BTW, this is really a Missy Elliott and friends!

2010-01-03T00:24:00.000-05:00

4 All the Sistas Around da World Brand New

Hear the Blabber mouth that is seeking whine for her cheese in the Tiger Woods scandal...

2010-01-02T20:22:00.000-05:00

Ashley Samson says she's paid a heavy price for outing Tiger Woods' affair with Rachel Uchitel

BY Christian Red
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Saturday, January 2nd 2010, 7:33 PM
LAS VEGAS - It's high noon in Sin City on New Year's Eve and a petite blonde wearing jeans, leather boots and a black, sheer blouse is tucked in a corner table at the Pink Taco Mexican restaurant in the Hard Rock Hotel.

A stiff wind would likely knock Ashley Samson over, though she still thinks she could stand to drop a few poinds. She picks at a plate of shrimp tacos as Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" blares over the sound system, and later orders a shot of Jagermeister.

After the last tumultuous five months of her life, Samson is probably hoping to ring in happier times in 2010.

In quick succession, Samson separated from her husband of five years, then helped kick-start the sports world's scandal of the decade when she told the National Enquirer about Tiger Woods' affair with New York party girl Rachel Uchitel - an interview that may have been one factor in triggering a confrontation between Woods and his wife in the early hours after Thanksgiving and a car crash that resulted in one of the most spectacular falls from grace of any athlete in history.

For her part in the drama that has cost Woods endorsements, respect and possibly his marriage in the wake of revelations of numerous extra-marital affairs, Samson says she was paid $25,000. A girlfriend of Samson's who was not identified by the Enquirer backed up Samson's account in the magazine and received between $10,000 and $15,000 from the tabloid, Samson says, adding that the cost to both women has exceeded any money they've received. In retrospect, she told the Daily News that she should have taken the $200,000 she says the Woods camp offered her to keep quiet.

Samson says her decision to blow the whistle on Woods and Uchitel has resulted in plenty of mental anguish, fractured friendships and added stress in her personal life and her marriage.

"I'm trying to get my f--- life together and repair my reputation," says Samson. "It probably would have been better (to accept the $200,000) because what ended up happening was a big mess."

Samson says she is bitter about the way Uchitel trashed her during interviews once the scandal broke, saying she didn't know Samson, although photographs later emerged showing them together. One moment Samson was lying on a bed next to Uchitel in Spain and listening to Uchitel's steamy phone conversations with Woods. A month later, an all-out verbal war with Uchitel erupted.

Samson says she has weighed legal action against Uchitel, though Samson won't comment on where she currently stands on that matter. Samson would like a return to a normal life, she says, maybe re-enter the business world - she owned two Vegas businesses in the past; a garage door company and a handbag accessories company - but isn't sure if her link to the Woods scandal will create some hurdles.

She has already severed ties with the girlfriend who backed up her account in the Enquirer and is uncertain about what will happen with her marriage. She is still coping with the 2005 shooting death of her brother William in Vegas. Christopher Lane is serving a 4-to-10 year sentence for killing William Hollingsworth (Hollingsworth is Samson's maiden name) in a dispute in their apartment over a missing bus pass.

"I want to start another business. Hopefully I'll be able to do that in this town, considering everything that just happened," Samson says. "Jesus. That's the one thing that bothers me about Rachel - she just went crazy on me, making all this s--- up about me, when all I was doing was telling the truth all along. I took a polygraph test, for God's sake. Then she tarnishes my name in this town."

The saga began for Samson in August, when she separated from her husband. Samson says she moved in with the girlfriend while sorting out her marriage troubles. The girlfriend, much like Uchitel, had been a VIP hostess in Vegas, working at a job that involves everything from securing private rooms or lounges in clubs for celebrities and star athletes to making sure top-shelf liquor and beautiful women and whatever else they desire is available.

In October, Samson's girlfriend had what appeared to be an enticing proposal - an all-expenses paid trip to Spain. "One day she said to me, 'Hey, you want to go to Spain? My friend Rachel (Uchitel) is going to pay for it.' I'm like, 'Alright, cool. Hell yeah I want to go to Spain,'" says Samson. "Everything was paid for - the tickets, our flights were like $1,200 each."

Samson had never met Uchitel before and wasn't aware of Uchitel's past - working as a VIP hostess on the New York club scene and a woman who had lost her fiancé in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

"The impression that I got was that Rachel was a trust-fund baby and she wanted some friends to come along to Spain and join her for a few days," says Samson. "I'm so naïve I actually believed it. That's stupid, so stupid."

Samson says that while Uchitel seemed "nice" when they first met, the trip devolved on two fronts: Samson says she soon became aware of why she was at the Spanish resort. She was one of four women - including Uchitel - in Marbella to exclusively entertain four men. "I've never been a party girl. I didn't know anything about the scene or how things worked," says Samson. "Rachel invited all these women to come to Spain to entertain these men. That was her whole idea. Well, no one told me and no one clued me in."

She adds that Uchitel disappeared with one of the men for about two hours at one point during the trip, though Samson is unclear what transpired.

Samson describes Uchitel as having acted like a "madam."

"Who else flies a couple of girls out to Spain for three days to meet with a bunch of men?" Samson says. "I mean, hello."

But there was an even bigger bombshell in the first few hours after Samson and her friend arrived from the States.

"Before we went out to the nightclub (the first night), that's when I found out about (Uchitel) and Tiger. She's like, texting on her phone. She's non-stop on her phone, texting. I'm like, 'Girl, who are you texting?' And she's like, 'Tiger,'" says Samson. "And then she looks at (Samson's friend), and they exchange a glance, and (Samson's friend) goes, 'It's OK to tell her.' And that's when (Uchitel) told me, 'I'm dating Tiger Woods.' I'm like, 'No f--- way.' She was on her phone, 24/7, talking or texting with Tiger. Tiger was in Vegas at the time. She was trying to make arrangements for him to get into the nightclub without being attacked by the media and stuff like that."

Samson says she is still shocked by Uchitel's phone conversation with Woods.

"My first reaction was, 'I can't believe this. I can't believe Tiger would do this, (with) someone like Rachel.' She's a party girl. I mean that's her reputation. I couldn't believe that Tiger would do that. I didn't believe it until I heard his voice," says Samson.

After the Spain trip, Samson says she only met with Uchitel one other time, in Las Vegas in mid-November. By that time, the Woods scandal was starting to leak. Uchitel had flown to Australia during the same stretch when Woods played in (and won) the Australian Masters in Melbourne on Nov. 12-15. Samson says she had not talked with the Enquirer at that point, but that the magazine was already onto Uchitel's relationship with Woods.

"That had nothing to do with me," Samson says. "I think the Enquirer had been following Rachel because of her and David Boreanaz." Reports have linked Uchitel with the then-married "Bones" actor.

Uchitel had to cut the Australia trip short, Samson says, because hints of Woods' secret life began emerging and Uchitel was photographed checking into the same hotel as Woods. Following Uchitel's denials that she had been in Australia with Woods, it was reported that Woods' childhood friend, Bryon Bell, who manages Woods' golf course design company, had arranged for Uchitel's trip Down Under. Samson says Uchitel told her that Woods was aware of the leaks while he was playing in Australia, and that he arranged for Uchitel to return to the States earlier than planned.

"(Rachel) told me that she was going to be going to Australia and then she was going to be going to Dubai (where Woods has a golf course and was scheduled to play in the Dubai World Championship Nov. 19-Nov. 22) after that," says Samson. "Well, of course Australia got cut short and Dubai got cancelled because the Enquirer caught wind of it all. This is when she had to come back to the States from Australia, when Tiger found out about the story leaking.

"She came back to Vegas and when she was in town, she called me and said, 'Hey, you want to come join me for the evening?' We had been texting and stuff back and forth since Spain, getting along just fine. She asked me, 'Look, I've got to go meet Derek Jeter and will you come out? We need some girls at the table.' I'm like, 'I don't care, whatever.'"

As it turned out, Samson never got to meet with the Yankee captain. When she met Uchitel at the Bellagio restaurant "Yellowtail," Uchitel was glued to her cell phone the entire evening.

"Rachel was just on her phone. She was going back and forth," Samson continues, adding that she was not sure if Uchitel was contacting Woods that night. "She was really distraught over the whole Tiger thing and she was upset. I'm like, 'Why'd we even come down here?' Being the celebrity w---- she is, in walks (actor) Jeremy Piven. What does she do? She jumps up out of her seat, she runs and goes sits down with Jeremy Piven. That was the end of the night."

In a recent "Dateline" interview, Samson's girlfriend - who is in disguise - said that the reason Samson turned on Uchitel was because of a catfight between the two women. Samson says no such verbal spat took place. Samson told her story to the Enquirer, she says, because of Uchitel's negative influence on Samson's girlfriend. She says Uchitel was running into financial issues, and was using Samson's girlfriend for help. Uchitel has since torpedoed Samson in various interviews, even calling Samson a heavy drug user.

Samson says that matters worsened between her and her girlfriend after the "Dateline" interview. By the time Woods' camp approached Samson and her girlfriend with the hush money offer, Samson says the Enquirer deal was already in the works.

Mark Steinberg, Woods' agent at IMG, did not respond to an E-mail request to comment on Samson's hush money claim.

"I was sincerely angry at Rachel, because I really thought Rachel was using (Samson's girlfriend) and treating her like crap," says Samson. She adds that the lives Uchitel and her girlfriend lead - blurring the "party girl"/VIP hostess job and conducting relationships with bold-faced names - are "very sad."

"I was never a drug user or a party girl," says Samson.

It seems clear that the foray into whistle blowing was not worth it for Samson. She says she has not talked to or reached out to her girlfriend or to Uchitel and has no plans to in the future.

And Samson says she does not know if Woods is still involved with Uchitel. Woods' whereabouts are unknown and there have been several false sightings of the golfer in the last month. Numerous companies have dropped their association with Woods, including Accenture and AT&T. And it does not appear if Uchitel or Samson's girlfriend made out much better.

"Oh, I've got a sense of (the party girl culture) now. It's sad actually. It's very sad. They don't have any real friends. It's a sad existence I think," Samson says. "I actually feel sorry them."

J. Lo looks horrible and sounds even worse... this was one of those had to be there moments!

2010-01-02T20:02:00.000-05:00

Jay-z one his way to Grandmother's house in Run This Town with Kayne, And Rihanna tagging along!

2010-01-02T19:56:00.000-05:00

Doesn't Jay-z look like he is on his way to Grand mother's house with his little red ridding hood scarf on...

9 year old boy stabbed to death... over a video game? SMH

2010-01-02T19:39:00.000-05:00

Anthony Maldonado, 9, Stabbed to death in hallway of Harlem housing project over video game

BY HENRICK KAROLISZYN, JOE JACKSON, MATTHEW LYSIAK AND JOHN LAUINGER
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Originally Published:Saturday, January 2nd 2010, 7:38 AM
Updated: Saturday, January 2nd 2010, 6:42 PM

Dolores Juela is comforted as she grieves her 9-year-old son Anthony Maldonado, who was stabbed to death Saturday morning during a visit to relatives in Harlem.

A man in his 20s was being questioned at the 26th Precinct about the crime, sources told the News.

He was killed over a game.

A 9-year-old boy visiting his family in Harlem sat down Saturday to play a video game starring his skateboarding hero, Tony Hawk.

By 3:30 a.m., play time turned to horror.

Police said a 25-year-old man plunged a knife in the boy's chest, sending him staggering to his uncle's bedroom door.

"Uncle, uncle, I've been stabbed!" Anthony Maldonado cried out, before collapsing on the floor, the uncle Carlos Juela, 31, recalled.

Paramedics rushed Anthony from the La Salle St. apartment to St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, but the New Jersey boy died in less than an hour, police said.

"Anthony was playing ... on PlayStation when his friend came and stabbed him," said the boy's distraught grandfather, Antonio Juela, 59. "My grandson died over a video game."

Anthony's devastated mother, Dolores Juela, 35, raged against her son's suspected killer, unable to control her tears.

"Why would you kill my little boy?" she thundered in Spanish. "There is no reason."

Police questioned a 25-year-old man at the 26th Precinct stationhouse. Cops said he was the victim's cousin, while relatives said the man being grilled was a family friend who lived at the uncle's apartment. He hasn't been charged, but a police source said cops aren't pursuing other suspects.

Anthony was a fourth-grader at Lindbergh Elementary in Palisades Park, N.J. He loved skateboarding, and was ecstatic about getting a PlayStation system for Christmas.

He spent the holidays at his grandfather's Harlem apartment while his mother remained at home. He was spending the night at his uncle's apartment when he was killed.

Dolores Juela told the Daily News that her brother, Carlos Juela, rents an apartment in the Grant Houses along with three brothers who are not related to the family.

At one point, Carlos Juela, 31, went to sleep and left Anthony in the care of the three brothers, Dolores Juela said.

Two of the brothers left the apartment to get food at about 3 a.m. Anthony and the 25-year-old brother remained behind because they were so engrossed in playing the video game, Dolores Juela said.

Roughly 30 minutes later, Anthony was stabbed.

Dolores Juela arrived at the hospital four hours later for the grim task of identifying her son's body.

"He was so popular in school," the mother said, breaking down in tears. "He was such a good boy. He didn't deserve this. He was too young."

Police said Anthony was stabbed several times. A relative said his face had also been slashed and that he had bruises on his arms - perhaps indicating a struggle before the stabbing.

Cops investigating the murder yesterday shut down power to the building's elevator and used flashlights to search the shaft for the murder weapon.

Dolores Juela said the 25-year-old's mother told her that her son was guilty of the shocking crime.

"She said he was sick," Dolores Juela recalled.

Anthony's uncle confirmed the 25-year-old lived in the apartment.

"He was a friend. I can't believe this happened," Carlos Juela said. "He doesn't act right on the street but he always minded his manners in the house."

Anthony's grandfather could not get over why an adult would stab his "lovely" little grandson.

"Anthony was a loving child who loved his PlayStation," Antonio Juela said. "He got the PlayStation for Christmas and was very happy. He was so happy."

jlauinger@nydailynews.com

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Gucci Mane learns that he is not T.I., and has to follow the rules...

2010-01-02T19:22:00.000-05:00

Pray that Gucci Mane learns that he is not T.I., and has to follow the rules...

HOTTNESS! Young Jeezy Bury Me a G

2010-01-02T19:00:00.000-05:00

Madea showing off at Black Movie Awards

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Fabulous ft. Young Jeezy Diamonds on my Damn Chain

2010-01-02T16:45:00.001-05:00

The Dream feat. Young Jeezy I Luv Your Girl (Remix)

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