His sister Patricia declined an interview, saying that she would have too much to say once she started. Some likened Moorehead, a local rapper who went by Tyree Colion, to rapper Tupac Shakur, who was killed by gun violence, and Freddie Gray and Michael Brown, other Black men killed by police officers. Speakers told stories about Moorehead’s penchant for standing up to bullies and railed against the police and lack of mental health resources that they said brought about his death. On a sidewalk painted with phrases like “Forever You Live Tyree,” mourners lit candles and blasted his rap songs from a car stereo. Relatives, rappers, gunshot survivors and friends who had served in prison with Moorehead painted a picture of a beloved father and brother who had struggled with his mental health, but cared deeply about curbing gun deaths in Baltimore. He was 15 when Baltimore Police arrested him in what they called a drug-related killing in the Lafayette Courts public housing complex. Tyree Moorehead became an anti-violence activist after his 2012 release from prison following a 20-year sentence, spray-painting the phrase “No Shoot Zone” at more than 200 shooting and homicide sites around the city over the past decade.
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