Ra Diggs

Ronald Herron, known as Ra Diggs, is an American rapper based in Brooklyn, New York. He began a career on November 25, 2008, creating a YouTube blog channel called "RaDiggsTV". It has 178 subscribers and 39,540 views as of December 13, 2017. On March 10, 2010, he created a YouTube channel called "VANGODENT". It has over 1,000 subscribers as of 2017. He would post music videos to the channel. On June 11, 2010, he released a song to the channel called "Eulogy". It has over 500,000 views as of December 2017. The song got him arrested on October 6, 2010. He was charged with drug trafficking and murder. He had killed 3 people. In June 2014, he was convicted. On April 2, 2015, he was sentenced to 3 life terms+105 years in prison. He told the judge that he could give him 10 life terms and that he was only going to die once. Right after that, he was sentenced to 12 life terms+105 years in prison. He is being held at the Federal Correctional Institute in Florence, Colorado.

References

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