More than a year after Alabama rapper HoneyKomb Brazy’s grandparents were killed in a house fire, officials believe their death stemmed from a Facebook post courtesy of OMB Peezy.
CBS affiliate WKRG reports federal investigators believe that Terrance Watkins and Jamarcus Chambers, both of whom have been charged with murder, as well as another suspect, Patrick Lewis, went to HoneyKomb Brazy’s grandparents home on Feb. 17, 2021 under the direction of Darrin Southall, an accused drug kingpin.
“His involvement is as what we call an aider and abettor which is that he was helping plan and organize and encouraging the three individuals that were in the car,” Louis Walker, an Assistant District Attorney for the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office, told the court about Southall.
Walker alleges that the fatal house fire that killed Tony and Leila Lewis stemmed from a Facebook post from Peezy, who was an associate of the couple’s grandson. According to prosecutors, the post angered Watkins, who hatched a plant to “hurt Jones,” and decided to hone in on his family’s home as a target.
“I think anyone in that house would have been a target of this attack,” Watkins said.
“It was very gruesome, no one deserved, no one, not just because it was my family, but no one deserved to be treated like that. They had no remorse for human life at all. They don’t realize what they took from us,” Letecha Lang, the niece of HoneyKomb Brazy’s grandparents, said.
Prosecutors, who discovered two types of ammunition at the scene of the house fire, believe that two people are responsible for the gunshots that erupted in the house fire that killed HoneyKomb’s grandparents. However, Chambers told officials that Lewis and Watkins pulled the triggers while he was in the car.
“A likely scenario is that the gunfire resulted in the explosion of an oxygen tank, which in turn would have caused the explosion of other oxygen tanks in the house, which would lead to the fire,” Walker explained.
More than a year after the deaths of Tony and Leila Lewis, no official cause of the fire has been determined.
