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May 13, 2025 29 mins

“Launden Luckett, a young hustler from the gritty streets of Chicago, is no stranger to danger. But when a trusted friend sends him to Kokomo for what’s supposed to be a quick and easy job—robbing a local target—Launden steps into a world far more twisted than he ever imagined. One bad call sets off a chain of events that forces him to confront his choices, his loyalty, and the life he thought he had under control. In Kokomo, nothing goes as planned—and for Launden, nothing will ever be the same.”


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(00:02):
I don't need no fraud, I don't need no, I don't need no drama
when you call. I don't need no play soon as I
wake up. Keep an eye out for the sinks
here 'cause I don't need no fraud.
I don't need no drama when you call.

(00:29):
I don't need no lights. Pick the side, pick the side,
motherfucker. What's good world?
This is King Arthur. This is not my brother's keepers
podcast, a true crime podcast about black dudes who killed.
What's good thing, what's good? What's up?
What's happening? Your boy ain't dropped a couple

(00:51):
days now doing very good, man. You know ankle still messed up.
It's actually purple. Think I'm losing circulation.
This my honey, I got to go prop my feet up and your boy has been
doing too much from what the doctor told me not to do.
Be him again. But yeah, you know, shot

(01:12):
everybody picked up them. A ticket is gonna come out to
the meet and greet on Saturday next week of the 17th over there
at the Room ATX in Houston, TX. Shout out to Millennium Mayhem,
Millennium mysteries, a separateroom.

(01:32):
That's gang over there. That's my Texas gang over there
separate room days and Britney Nicole.
Yep, that is gang over there. Now.
I don't know what time it is over there where you at?
But it's it is 11/15. I ain't smoking my hooker

(01:53):
tonight. I ain't got no alcohol tonight.
This I just got out the tub. Yeah so I just gotta get this
recorded before I get into bed cause your boy is tired.
But anyway, that will not stop the shenanigans.
Anyway, we're gonna talk about the guy named Landon Luckett.

(02:14):
Not a crazy part about this guy is a y'all might not know his
name but y'all have seen this meme going across Instagram in
the recent weeks. I like bro.
What is your story gang? And let me tell you something.
I went down that rabbit hole andI found everything I needed and

(02:36):
let me tell you right now this is a two-part series and this is
Part 1. But anyway, anyway, we Linden
lucky he's he's from Chicago andyou know, he's part of the
Blackstone gang, you know, gang,gang, gang, gang.

(02:57):
You know, these *** love to joingangs.
You can't, they can't fistfight.But I'm telling they gonna join
their gang 'cause they gonna cuttheir gang come with a with 100
*** 100 rounds and 100 *** that don't give a shit about nothing
but they self in Chicago. There's what a yeah, that's what
AYN started. Them *** out there don't stop

(03:19):
they don't stop in their favorite holidays coming up
Memorial Day. You do not want to be in Chicago
on Memorial Day, gang, You don'tit's horrible it's like 100
people shot in Memorial Day in Chicago Don't go there go
somewhere safe like Houston comeeat brunch with us Yeah look,
well, look, you gotta work in shot him.

(03:40):
You gotta worry about that No Memorial Day 'cause we we, I
mean we when he's we drinking and brunch him.
Yep. But anyway, it is April 2008 in
Landon what I've called Lucky 'cause his last name look at he
is traveling to Kokomo, IN to put in some work.

(04:02):
Yeah, he's gonna sell some work to this guy named PUD right now.
Locking. He just got a sale.
He just got a sale call from a fellow gang member, name name
Sean, and he was told that it's a guy down there at the Gateway
Gardens who had some jewelry andgot some money on him and he

(04:24):
need him to take that. Yeah, she don't say, man, go
down there, take this *** shit. I don't give a fuck what it is,
man. Take all that *** shit, Right?
So your boy look it. He hooks up with his homie
Michael Yates, right? And he's gonna call him Yates
from now on, right now. And they plan to run up in the

(04:47):
spot and rob this motherfucker, right?
We just gonna rob this motherfucker, take all this shit
or everything gotta go, right? So they found out where this ***
gonna be and they're like, hey, man, we just gonna run down
there and you can make him get down.
If you don't get down, you're gonna lay down.
And when you lay down, you ain'tgonna you gonna stay down.

(05:08):
Yeah. So beanie seagull shit.
Right. So when they get to the house,
they get to this house ran in this apartment and this is
rented by Tamika Dunn. And she had a girl, she had a
little girl. She had her little girlfriend
over named Shanika Smith. Now, Sean, you know, you know

(05:28):
Sean, he is the guy who called Lucky to try to set up the
robbery, right? So when Lucky gets there with,
yes, he enters the apartment right now, Keith Taylor, that's
the guy they want to rob right now.
I don't know if somebody gave Keith the heads up or he really
knew these *** 'cause once they hopped open, once they came in

(05:52):
the door, homeboy hopped out thefucking window like on juice,
jumped out that mother fucking and took off running.
And at this point, mother fucking landing and yeast,
they're like, man, what the fuck?
And they run out the apartment and they try to catch up to

(06:12):
Taylor, but Taylor. But Taylor, as you know, he in
the wind, bro, he in the wind. So the neighbor run out like
what the fuck is going on? And then he see the Yates and
look at running out of hall and he pulls out his well, he had a
Golf Club in his hand and he start chasing these mother
fuckers because they yell like these mother fuckers run up in

(06:34):
the house. They try to rob us type shit
right. So he chasing the ass down
apart. They must get away right?
So, so they get back to the vehicle they was in and they,
they get back to the vehicle they was in and you know, they
like trying to regroup. Like man, what the fuck?

(06:56):
This *** know we was coming overthere.
What the fuck is going on? He seemed like he was prepared
for us to come through that fucking door.
What the fuck is up? So you know, they are pissed,
they are pissed and like man, this motherfucker, man, we got
to kiss this *** I'm going to snatch all his shit.
Give me all that fake ass jewelry.

(07:16):
I need that right So let on thatnight they meet up at the spot
called little daddy right now word and already got around that
word and already got around thatabout the attempted robbery and

(07:38):
Taylor has informed his people that he gonna kill these *** Oh
yeah, I won't kill these *** ButPete this fuck killing them ***
Who the hell is setting you up gang?
Who is setting you up gang? Because they knew exactly where

(08:01):
you was at and you knew exactly who they was and you ran because
you knew the smoke was there, right.
So finally at the strip club, you got Yates, look it, and a
guy named Baby Stone, right? And Yay's girlfriend Satika

(08:24):
Allen inside the strip club, Yes, he got his 22 on him,
right? Look it he got his 45 and Baby
Stone got the 40. Cal, let me tell you something,
this is more than enough reasons.
Stay out the fucking strip club hot one.
These *** not VIP how the fuck they get in with so many guns.

(08:47):
But you know what this what it tells me about that club little
daddy. It is some hood shit for your
ass. These three bum ass *** just
walked in there with pistols anda bitch.
Pistols and a bitch you gay. They should man, they should've
been checking lock it over seed and hairline head ass at the

(09:07):
door then that many guns shouldn't it?
Look, that's the whole party, that's the whole club, that's
everybody in that nigga's car came in with guns, bro.
Who was checking the dough? Who was checking the door?
Because they ain't doing nothingbut standing there, right?

(09:28):
So around around 1:30 AM, right?A guy named a guy a guy named
Pee Wee. Now it's April 5th, right, 2008,
right. Yesterday was a it is a past
midnight when the attempted robbery was on the 4th, right.
So pee wee guy named Pee wee, hecalled up his friend Abby Ruth

(09:52):
Lake and he tell her come pick me up and she come through with
her friend Megan. I mean Morgan, right?
Morgan Vetter and the trio went to one club after another and
they just club popping, right. But eventually they say fuck it,
Let's go. Let's let's let's hit a little

(10:12):
daddy. You know the holes up in there.
She she, you know, let's head upover there.
I ain't got shit else to do. She you trying to fuck on them
and anyone trying to fuck. We can go to the club again.
So when they get there, when they get there, when they get to
the club, Pee Wee meets up with Taylor, the same Taylor, Keith

(10:37):
Taylor that Lucky and Yates was trying to rob, right?
But he with his brother Terrell Taylor, who they already called,
they call him, they call him Sticks right now.
Abby and Morgan waited in the car right when Pee Wee and the

(11:02):
Taylor brothers into the spot. Lucky and Yates, I see them and
they already know that there's smoke in the air.
They already know they're like, OK, OK, I see you, Nick.
What's a good gang? We said we we see you, dog.
We see you gay. So in just a couple, just a

(11:25):
couple hours before after the robbery attempt, it was known
that Taylor was also looking forlanding in Yates and he said he
won't them *** dead. So basically Yates and Luckett

(11:50):
won't Taylor dead and Taylor wants Luckett and Yates dead.
So these *** are at the point towhere it's about to be some ***
shit and they really want to seewho who is going to kill who
first, right. So they all is in the club, you

(12:14):
know, chilling, drinking. And I don't know if I could be
really drinking this shit. Once I see Miami walk up in
there and look, I'm in a bit dirty and a bitch.
I'm just going to assume him. It's been dirty too.
Right now it's about 3:00 AM. It's closing time.
Yes, lucky the baby Stone and Shatika Allen.
They don't they don't left out the club and hop back in there

(12:35):
when they smile. If they was driving, Allen is in
the driver's seat, gates is in the passenger seat and of course
baby stone and look at this in the back right now when Allen
cranks up the car she's trying to drove she's she's trying to
drive off and yes, I hold a girl.
What the fuck you going? Calm your ass down.

(12:55):
Let's see. I want to see what I want.
Wait for these bitch ass *** because I want to pop the ass
right here, said Tika. Like *** right here, right here.
You wanna shoot right here? So she just waited, right?
So they wait a couple moments and then Pee Wee and the Taylor
brothers, they exit the club andthey got back in the car with

(13:18):
Abby. Now first of all, why the fuck
is Abby and Morgan still waitingin his car while these *** go up
in the strip club? I would have left there.
They've been calling a fucking Uber hold.
Do they have Uber in 2008? They've been calling a fucking
taxi or they asked would have been whooping feet.
And when I say whooping feet, I mean walking *** we that way if

(13:39):
you gang while you go up to the strip club, we not we're not
doing that game right. So Gates tell Shanika to follow
the damn follow the white Monte Carlo, right?
But now she get nervous like that.
What the fuck is going on, bro? Like, I'm just trying to get
over here, pick up my daughter and go home, right?
So Shetty Shetty eventually pulls off and getting the pulls

(14:02):
out, she pulls out and follows the Monte Carlo, right?
But, you know, before they lose track of the fucking Monte
Carlo. Of course, of course, 'cause,
you know, women like to drive oncurbs back in this shit.
So, you know, they follow nobodycorrectly.

(14:23):
No, no, no, no, no, that isn't crab legs over there.
This is some lamb chops over there.
They probably go follow that faster.
They could follow that day of Monte Carlo.
But anyway, they lose track of the Monte Carlo, right And sneak
the Tika. She's like, fuck, I'm gonna pick
up my daughter any fucking way. I don't give a shit about this
shit. Thing is that going on?
I'm gonna go pick up my child and take my ass home, right?

(14:45):
So eventually, Satika, she pullsover, right?
These apartments, she gets out the car and walks to the
apartment to pick up her daughter, right?
And at this point, Yates hops his ass in the driver's seat and
Baby Stone hops into the passenger seat.
You know, look, I just stayed inthe back right now because now

(15:08):
why are they playing musical chairs?
The Monte Carlo backed up and went past them again, right?
So they're like, man, what the fuck?
What is *** going like? What is *** going right?
So they lose sight of them again, but they are now
following them in the direction.Right now they are driving.

(15:28):
I mean, so they finally catch back up to the Monte Carlo
again, but this time the Taylor brothers are not in the car.
They're both outside the car, walking to a house near the
intersection of Monroe and Pardon Street, right?
Right. They've already got out the car.
They like, God damn it, this motherfucker.

(15:49):
You want to bust them *** right now?
That's what I'm busting ass right now, right?
Right. But you know, they pulled up and
they aim out the window, right? But you know, *** can't shoot.
You're like fuck, we gotta get closer, dog.

(16:11):
We're gonna fucking miss, *** You would miss if you was 3 feet
away. Why does that matter?
Again? Why does that matter, right?
So lucky realize that. Lucky realize that Pee Wee was
still in the backseat of the carright and they like fuck it,

(16:34):
let's go get his ass. He just sitting there.
Let's get him. They just sitting in the car.
Ain't no need for us to get out and try to chase down the Taylor
brothers when we got that *** already in the car, right
people? You know, he just sitting
around, you know, he know with two chicks, bro.
You know he now talking, making him laugh.
You know all the shit *** do when they're trying to get the

(16:54):
Mac on because to do the ready left out the car.
Now he can be himself and be as funny or corny as he want to be
right now. Amy and Morgan are still in the
car as well as well as Yates andlooking like fuck that.
We're gonna have to go do this shit right motherfucking now,
baby stone like they like I meanJason look like.

(17:15):
So what we gonna do? We're gonna go get baby stone
while he with them hoes or we gonna let him go baby stone like
man, fuck them bitches. They don't get it too.
We only we leaving no witnesses.Everybody in that motherfucker
gotta go. I don't give a fuck.
So now why they over there devising a plan on who should

(17:38):
die and who shouldn't Fucking Monte Carlo drives off again.
These *** are these *** are the Three Stooges dog.
These things are the three students.
They can't get it together out. They cannot get it together.
They they not they are they evenreally on the prize like I think
it is? It's not right.
So now the money caller has drove off again and it has made

(18:01):
it to the middle and apartments where Pee Wee lived.
But when they got there, Abby kind of drives the back and she
makes AU turn and she's trying to come back and she's trying to
parallel into a spot, right? But that's when Yates pulled
into the parking lot and pulled right up behind her, right?

(18:25):
And now, like she's trying to correct herself, but this ***
right here is too close. She's like, *** what the fuck
are you doing? Right?
So she pulls up and try to correct herself anyway.
But then as she's trying to get in, as she's getting into the
side to make that parallel, this*** parked his car kind of like
in behind her and blocks her in,right.

(18:45):
And that's when Morgan looks like to I mean, I'm lucky he
don't put a ski mask on, right? He done jumped out the car,
right? And he runs up on the passenger
side. Now Morgan sees him running up
on the panda side and then she see another man on from from the
other side. She like what the fuck?
She starts screaming and look, it pulls out the 45 and put it

(19:06):
up Ba ba ba ba ba ba. He shoots 12 times into the
passenger window. Baby stone.
He doesn't jump because remember, they don't block.
They don't block the car in right.
Baby stone has jumped on the hood of the car, which is
basically damn. He could have jumped on the
trunk of the fucking of the Monte Carlo and he just.

(19:32):
He's shooting through the back window right now when all the
shots are going off, Pee Wee is dove onto the floor and Abby and
Morgan, they don't duck down right And everybody in that
motherfucker is screaming like oh shit, what the fuck?
Oh damn, I'm hit. Oh, forget screaming.
It's just pure cut 'cause pure chaos, bro, Pure fucking chaos.

(19:56):
They shooting in this bitch. 12 This thing we shot. 12 this ***
Baby stolen shot 16 OK that's 28fucking bullets into one vehicle
right now. When luck at him babies don't
stop shooting. It was quiet you could hear no

(20:21):
more screaming. Noble Holland and these mother
fuckers, they believe me *** dead.
They hop in the car and when they attempt to drive off, these
stupid motherfuckers then ran into the back of the car.
Yeah, and then when they backed up, they have now scraped the

(20:44):
side of the car, fucking up the Monte Carlo side of the car and
the fucking Mazda 626 and they knocked out the rearview mirror.
*** That's evidence gang. What it get like you can't make
this shit up right now. Now Pee Wee had been shot in the

(21:08):
face and in the leg but was ableto crawl out the vehicle and
scream for help and y'all come help me dawg I'm fucked up out
here. And he said he's screaming out,
he's screaming for help right now, Morgan.
She was shot in the chest, abdomen, the leg.

(21:30):
And when she regains conscious, she crawled out that
motherfucker too, screaming holla for help right now, Abby.
She was shot multiple times, dog.
It shot in the back, pierced herlung, struck A collarbone,

(21:51):
fractured her jaw, entered her brain.
And by the time the ambulance came and picked these three
bodies up off the floor, when they got Abby to Methodist
Hospital, she was dead, right? She was dead right now.

(22:16):
The tailor boys come out and like Amy, what the fuck?
You know, they ain't give me no statements to the police.
All they said they was just in the car.
Somebody tried to rob me earlier.
I don't know what happened. We weren't even out here.
They just dropped us the fuck off, right?
They just dropped us the fuck off.

(22:38):
I don't know what the fuck is going on, but I'm gonna get some
motherfucking answers in this bitch, do you hear me?
Game right. So after that Yates, he goes and
drops off Luckett at the GatewayGardens.
Then they went back to then he went Yates, then he went back to

(23:03):
pick Shaquita up from where she was picking from my home house
when she was picking up her daughter.
What? Hold up *** y'all just went shut
up. Three people killed, one wrecked
his car, that's a rental and yougo back to pick her up.

(23:25):
What the *** I'm sure the car smell like gunpowder.
I'm sure of it. I'm sure the car smells like
gunpowder, bro. I'm positive.
I'm positive the car smells likegunpowder right now.

(23:47):
Yates has got in the car. I mean when they get there they
decide not to get in that car right?
They just park it and they leaveright?
And Jase calls another homie andhe comes pick him and Shaquita
up and drops him off at the house.
Why bro, you implicating 2 motherfuckers you just left in

(24:10):
the car, came back in the car. She gets in, y'all stop.
Y'all not going to drop the car?You go hide the car.
You come back to the spot on feet and then you call somebody
to come get you to drop y'all off at the spot *** *** look at
him. Shakita is giving Edna bra like

(24:32):
come on now, don't, don't, don'tdo nothing with this *** This
*** he he's no good game. It doesn't even say if he's your
baby daddy or not. But I'm telling you right now,
the way you was acting, this gotto be baby daddy got to be.
Why else are you this stupid? I'm sure you know what this ***
just did. I'm sure you know how this ***
get down, right? So the next morning, the next

(24:57):
morning, Shakita has to go rent a vehicle so she could get to
work. Yeah, she had to go rent a
vehicle so she could get to worknow.
Yes, baby. Starting to look it.
They went back to Chicago to getrid of the guns, but before they

(25:25):
left for Chicago, before they left for Chicago, they put the
rental car in the shop so I can get repaired before they can
return it. All this tell me is, is it?
Tell me two things. One, these *** didn't have no
rental insurance. That's first two man.

(25:49):
I said fuck that car that ain't my problem, especially baby
don't. I wouldn't give a fuck what
happened to that car. Didn't *** rented that shit?
They're not even thinking brown.But seeing how you can't trust
nobody, I guess they all three gonna go in and fix this because
hell you know what fuck took that back.

(26:11):
Why are we fixing this car bro? But then again, yeah, they had
to get repaired because they probably checked it for the
guns. They probably wipe that bitch
down. They probably look for bullet
case. They probably looking for
everything on the sun. Remember homeboy had on a ski
mask. You know, they probably just
clean the whole house. So they needed a little more
time with it. So therefore, yeah, they put it
in the shop. So yes, he goes back.

(26:36):
He goes back. Not yet.
Look at he goes back to shot town, right.
But when he gets to shot town, he is arrested, right?
He is arrested on some other shit, right?
He is arrested on some other shit right now during this time,

(26:57):
right? When he's in jail, right?
He, he, he didn't got, he didn'tgot locked up, right?
The police are looking for your boy Yates, right?
He he. Yeah.
Look who you boy Yates. It only took a couple of days
for them to eventually not even a couple days.

(27:21):
It took a couple months before they actually caught up to Yates
because people start telling them about the robbery on
Taylor, the attempted robbery onTaylor, right.
So, you know, with that being said, there's like with that,
with all that going on, people just throwing names out there.

(27:41):
That was like they they asked Shaquita and she was like, not
Shaquita. They asked what's hungry, man?
They asked Taylor's girlfriend, the house he was in.
And she was like, yeah, these two guys just run up in there.
And she says like Keith had to know him because once I came to
the door, he took off running, right?

(28:02):
And she was like, when was the club?
But on that night, kids called me on the phone and also told me
that the two guys that tried to rob him was there at the club
and it's might be an issue tonight.
So therefore tailoring them, they kind of stalled them out.

(28:23):
So when what I mean stalled themout when a Yatesen, when Yatesen
Lucky left, they knew that *** was going to be outside waiting
on them. They knew this.
So therefore they ain't going outside.
They kind of waited them out. So when they did finally come
out, they just told every man getting them a fucking empire in

(28:45):
Florida. Biscuit though, let's get the
fuck out of here right now. This story is about Lucky right?
OK, so eventually I'll cover youdown the line.
Yes, was eventually arrested, indicted and found guilty, right

(29:05):
of murder and attempted murder and he was sentenced to 165
years. But again, Yates is just a
character in this movie. This story's about lucky and
it's mighty interesting how yourboy, how you boy like 165 years,

(29:30):
right? Very interesting how he got this
165 years.
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