Commotion in Los Angeles and in general in the United States. Mylik Birdsong, 31-year-old WBF welterweight champion, has been murdered while accompanied by his girlfriend. The boxer was in a car with his partner when two men approached in another vehicle and shot him at point-blank range. It is suspected that the athlete was part of an organized gang and it could be a settling of scores.
Local Los Angeles police report that Mylik Birdsong, known as King Mylik, He was with his girl in the car when two men approached in another car and shot him. The boxer tried to escape the attack by getting out of the car, but the attackers chased him, continuing to shoot and ending his life in the middle of the street. The attackers fled and Mylik Birdsong was rushed by ambulance to the hospital, but was pronounced dead, as reported. Los Angeles Times. In the United States they reveal that the police suspect that he was a member of the gang Black P-Stone.
Professional boxer Mylik Birdsong was shot and killed in South Los Angeles. The boxer’s mother, Zonyia Birdsong, told Eyewitness News that she watched gunmen kill her son outside her home. «They murdered my child in front of me. “Who does that?” 💔 https://t.co/LXr24xyCoz pic.twitter.com/ZQGzdd6zV9
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) October 1, 2024
“A dark-colored SUV drove east on 87th Street and shot at the victim. The boxer ran to his residence when two suspects in the vehicle began to chase him while shooting him,” explained a police spokesperson at the hospital to announce the boxer’s death. A Mylik Birdsong that in its day caused a lot of talk because it was sued in 2010 by the vice president Kamala Harris for being an accomplice to a robbery.
Birdsong debuted as a professional boxer in 2017 and had a record of 15 wins, one loss and one draw, with 10 KOs. He defeated Jerry Bradford for the World Boxing Foundation welterweight champion title last March. His next fight was scheduled for October 26 against Armenian boxer Gor Yeritsyan at a Hollywood Fight Nights event that will no longer take place.
🚨Mylik Birdsong shot dead in LA.🚨
It’s suspected Birdsong was a member of the Black P-Stone gang in LA.
Back in 2010, Birdsong was listed as an accomplice in a lawsuit prosecuted by Jennifer Mannix on behalf of then AG Kamala Harris against Artero M. Collins, People v.… pic.twitter.com/yLxds5MGhN
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