BMF member gets 20 years for manslaughter
Fleming “Ill” Daniels pleads guilty to 2004 killing at the now-defunct Velvet Room.
Last week, a man described in court documents as the Black Mafia Family’s third-in-command pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the 2004 killing of Rashannibal “Prince” Drummond, who was shot to death in the parking lot of Peachtree Street’s now-defunct Velvet Room.
The plea marks the first and only resolution of a violent charge filed against a member of BMF, the $270 million nationwide cocaine enterprise that had hubs in L.A., Detroit and Atlanta. Though close to 150 BMF associates in a half-dozen states pleaded guilty to or were convicted of drug and/or money-laundering offenses, none of its members has been imprisoned for a violent crime.
That will change now that Fleming “Ill” Daniels pleaded to the 2004 killing — an altercation that allegedly began when Daniels backed his luxury SUV into Drummond, who was hanging out with friends in the club’s lot. Witnesses say that Drummond smacked the side of the vehicle with his hand and yelled, “Yo homeboy, you hitting me.”