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Police say DJ killed over music
Friends say victim Blacka Ranxx was well-known in reggae community
By BILL KAUFMANN, SUN MEDIA
The Calgary Sun
CALGARY -- Police say the city's latest homicide victim, whom friends identify as a popular DJ, might have been killed over musical issues.
Early Monday morning, police say a fight at the Penbrooke Meadows Community Association, 6100 Penbrooke Dr. S.E., ended with one man being injured and dying later in hospital.
The event was a dinner and dance wind-up for a domino tournament.
Friends have identified the victim by his DJ name, Blacka Ranxx, a Jamaican-born DJ who was working the party.
Staff Sgt. Patty McCallum said witnesses have described a number of motives, among them personal disputes that could involve Ranxx's livelihood.
"There were comments made that it could have been about music or respect, more a disagreement over personal views," said McCallum.
The victim and suspect police are seeking "are acquaintances ... the suspect is part of that musical culture."
An autopsy has been done and while police didn't divulge the cause of death, Sun sources say the man was stabbed.
Ranxx's friends are pleading for peace around a city dance party scene they say has turned menacing. DJ Butta, 35, who spun records with Ranxx at a party Friday night, described him as a "good man" who loved music.
"He was well known in the dancehall and reggae communities," he said.
"He loved music, that was his life, his life revolved around music."
Butta is now helping organize a memorial party for Ranxx at Coyotes Bar and Grill, 7-135 Whitefield Drive N.E., on Saturday in an effort to both raise money for his family and to call for an end to violence.
"Basically, unity is what we're looking to spread," said Butta.
"I've lived in a few cities in Canada and there's always confrontations and people have beefs or whatever.
"It's time to let it all go, we're all grown-up people, there's no reason to carry that on, especially at a party where people are there to have a good time and dance."
Another of the slain DJ's friends, Samiya Hussein, wrote on a memorial Facebook page her brother was murdered at a dance party last September where Ranxx spun discs.
On Sept. 7, Abdullah Hussein, 20, was fatally shot at a dance party at the Albert Park Radisson Heights Community Centre in what police say was a drug and gang-related assault.
Ranxx's death is an outrage, committed at a time when people should have been free to enjoy themselves, said Jimmy Brown, an organizer of last weekend's party.
"I don't think it's fair, it shouldn't have happened," said Brown, who watched Ranxx bleed to death near his DJ station.
Police say they've interviewed more than 30 people but believe there are more witnesses who haven't come forward.
Ranxx's death is Calgary's 14 homicide of the year.
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