By C1 Staff
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Two convicted killers have been recording rap videos using contraband cell phones inside a Tennessee facility.
WSMV reports that at least seven rap video and 90 songs have been posted online to four different websites by Lavino Horne and Leterpa Mosley.
Five years ago, both were captured on surveillance video approaching Tederrial Hancock’s car before running away. Police found Hancock, 19, dead outside a public library, shot seven times.
After committing the murder together, somehow both ended up as cellmates inside the same prison.
They’ve spent 14 months in the same cell, making music and posting it online. They’ve even been using social media to try and market themselves to labels.
The case against them in Hancock’s murder hinged mainly on a friend turned snitch, and investigators found a theme in their music.
“It seemed to be sending a clear message, snitches die,” said Johnnie Carter, with the West Tennessee Violent Crime and Drug Task Force.
Some of the videos show the two inmates using drugs inside the prison.
Records show that officers have caught both inmates with cell phones three times already but both were only penalized with small fines of $4 or $5.
A Facebook page representing Horne was taken down, many videos going with it, only to resurface a few weeks later.
The two men are no longer cellmates; Moseley was moved to another prison in October.
The Department of Corrections gave a statement that said cell assignments were complicated, involving many factors, and that both inmates are currently under investigation.