A rapper from San Antonio, Texas
named BTB Savage
killed someone and dissed them on social media.
Then just hours after the post
he was shot and killed in revenge.
He made headlines last week
for telling DJ Vlad how the shooting went down,
and now he’s in the spotlight
after tragically losing his own life.
So today we’re breaking down exactly what happened
in this wild story.
Let’s get right into it.
On March 30th,
headlines in Houston broke
that a man had been shot to death
in his vehicle around 6 PM.
Before anyone knew that BTB Savage was the victim,
the cops had already figured out
that it was a targeted shooting
because of how many bullet shells they found at the scene.
According to reports,
Savage was in his White Mercedes
in a good part of town called River Oaks
and the whip was filled with bullet holes.
Two shooters pulled up and boxed him in,
then they started letting off shots.
It’s not clear how many times Savage was hit
or if he shot back,
but by the time help arrived at the scene,
it was already too late.
Savage getting gunned down
in the middle of a nice neighborhood like that was shocking,
but then the story got even crazier.
Come to find out
a few hours before he was murdered,
BTB Savage posted a couple of selfies on Twitter
standing in a pool of dried blood.
And just a warning, the images are pretty graphic.
Savage was trolling a dude
who was killed in his apartment a couple of months ago,
and last week
he went on Vlad TV to air out how everything happened
According to Savage,
a local rapper had been trying to get a feature from him for a while.
They didn’t really know each other,
but they would run into each other at shows
and around town sometimes.
One night a couple of months ago,
the dude got in touch with Savage
and he finally agreed to do a feature -
and later that night the other rapper pulled up to his apartment
with a car full of dudes.
The rapper came into Savage’s apartment
with a 34 year old named Omar Richardson.
Savage said he felt kind of weird
because both of them were looking around his spot when they walked in,
but then Richardson flashed some bread
and Savage thought it was all good.
The dudes came in with a box full of studio equipment
so they could set up and record,
but then the other rapper said
he was missing a few things
and Omar told him to go back to the whip and grab what he needed.
Savage thought the situation was off,
so he locked the door when the rapper went outside -
and that’s when everything went left.
Omar started asking Savage about his jewelry
and who he got his pieces from,
and when Savage reached down to show him his chain
Omar upped his strap and told Savage to hand everything over.
At first Savage told him
he wasn’t giving it up,
but after Omar said
he’d shoot him and his girl too,
he started to take the chains off.
When Omar first pulled out the gun,
Savage was too far away to make a move.
But when Omar reached to grab Savage’s chain,
Savage saw an opportunity and moved quick.
He wrapped Omar up in his arms
and fell to the ground and they started wrestling.
Omar’s gun fell out of his hand
and Savage had his arms wrapped up,
and that’s when Savage yelled at his girl to come shoot him.
She came in and popped him in the back twice
but that didn’t slow him down.
Omar managed to get his hand on one of his guns
and let three shots off at Savage’s girl.
Luckily all of the shots missed
and Savage got him back under control.
He told Omar his son was in there and he just needed to leave,
but instead of ducking out and getting himself to the hospital,
Omar told Savage he was gonna kill him and kept fighting.
Omar yelled at his homies to shoot through the door
and they let off two shots and missed everyone.
Savage told his girl to shoot back,
but then twenty more shots flew into the apartment from the front door.
When they stopped shooting,
Savage’s girl popped back at them with two shots -
and that’s when Omar’s homies left him to die.
Savage and Omar kept fighting
while Savage’s girl tried to get a clean shot on him.
She fired again
but the bullet hit Savage right in the elbow and shattered it.
His bone was poking through the skin
and he couldn’t even hold the arm up,
but he got his body out of the way
and his girl shot Omar one more time in the torso.
Savage tried to get him to leave again
but Omar said he wasn’t going without getting something.
He was crawling on the floor with a gun in his hand
right next to Savage’s son’s room,
and that’s when Savage jumped on him.
He put his finger over Omar’s
and let off all the rounds left in the magazine.
When Omar realized he was out of ammo
he started telling Savage
he had kids too
and asked him not to let him die,
but Savage didn’t have sympathy for him
and said “I hope you die, b****.”
Savage and his girl went in to grab his son,
then Savage went back out to make sure everything was clear before they left.
Omar had crawled to the front door
and he grabbed Savage’s foot when he walked by
and begged him to take him to the hospital.
Savage told him
“Your ass ‘bout to fry right here.
And if they come save you, then they come save you.
If not, then you’re ass toasted.”
After that, Savage called his homie and was rushed to the hospital.
He passed out in the car,
and when he woke up in a hospital bed
the cops were waiting there to talk with him.
After Savage and his girl explained the situation
the cops classified it as self-defense
and neither of them were charged.
Omar died at the scene
and Savage told the cops he was happy about it.
In his interview with Vlad
he admitted
That s*** gave me mad PTSD for sure
but Omar put his son’s life in danger
so Savage had no choice.
It was a crazy situation
and the Vlad TV interview immediately blew up.
Hitting almost two million views in less than a week,
and Savage’s opps obviously wasn't happy about it.
Vlad asked Savage
I mean, are at all concerned
that his poeple,
are going to try and come back?
They for sure might,
They might do what they do.
But I'm gonna get active, that's all it is.
Unfortunately,
it didn’t take long for the getback,
and some people are blaming the interview
for his tragic death.
Benzino has been on VladTV before,
but after the news broke about Savage’s death
he tweeted
“I ain’t never going on that s*** again.
The culture is already killing each other at such a high rate
that we don’t need instigators by an outsider.”
Plus, Savage’s opps clowned him over the interview after he died,
which led to more people blaming Vlad.
Even thought the interview put the situation in the spotlight,
at the end of the day
Savage already had real beef in the streets
with whoever killed him
and that beef would’ve existed
even if he never told Vlad about Omar’s death.
Savage had already moved out of the apartment where Omar died,
but he went back
just to take a picture in his blood
and flex on the opps.
Him and his girl had every right to defend themselves
that night Omar tried to rob them,
but when you diss people’s dead homies on the internet like that
will always put a bigger target on your back.
It’s just a tragic situation all around,
and the rap game has lost another talented artist too soon.
BTB Savage never hit the mainstream,
but he was working hard the last few years
and definitely could’ve made a name for himself in the industry -
especially with the extra exposure from his Vlad TV interview.
Savage didn’t come up like most rappers.
He actually joined the army and was stationed in South Korea,
and that’s where he went to a trade school
and learned how to code.
According to reports,
he got caught up in a massive fraud scheme
that was allegedly over $1 million -
and that’s when he got kicked out of Korea
and decided to hop in the booth.
He tragically left behind a four year old son
who will have to grow up without his dad around,
and Savage said that his son
was the only thing that kept him going.
BTB Savage was hustling hard to make it in the industry
and provide for his family,
but the streets caught up to him
before he could hit the mainstream.
Rest in peace, to BTB Savage.