G. Dep’s Voluntary Confession Could Result in Life Sentence

By Lora Neng
WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER
December 20, 2010

Trevell Coleman was involved with a crime that ended in a man’s death 17 years ago. It took nearly two decades’ time, after reaching success as the rapper G. Dep, for him to walk into New York City’s 25th precinct last Wednesday night to confess to the killing.

The New York Post reports that G. Dep arrived at the station and told a cop, “I shot and killed someone 17 years ago.” He revealed details that only the murderer of John Henkel could have known. At the age of 18, he rid up to Henkel on a bike and announced a robbery. When the man grabbed his .40-caliber gun, Coleman pulled away and shot the victim three times before tossing the weapon into the East River and fleeing.

G. Dep is now being held without bail, following a long history of arrests for drugs, burglary and grand larceny. “That was just the life I was living back then. [But] I started to wonder if all the bad things that happened to me in my life were karma for what I did,” quotes YoRaps. “You start to think ‘My happiness is because of someone else’s sadness.’ I thought that if I turned myself in, it might give me closure.”

If convicted, Dep will face life in prison. Although his family and those in jail do not understand how he could confess, “I’m just trying to get right with God. The only thing I regret is that I have to leave my kids.” The rapper will no longer be associated with Comb’s Bad Boy Records.