Where is steady b and cool c

This is his second stay after Philly Judge L. Felipe Restrepo granted him an emergency stay of execution in December. Philadelphia rapper Cool C is set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday. The execution comes 19 years since Cool C was convicted in for the first-degree murder of Police Officer Lauretha Vaird during a bank robbery attempt. Roney was believed to be seen in a surveillance video aiming a gun at the bank's entrance when Officer Vaird, a year-old mother of two, walked into the bank -- after being alerted by an alarm -- and was killed.

According to The Village Voice , despite surveillance video, "ballistic and forensic evidence" and eyewitness reports, Roney, 26 years old at the time, claims he was eating with his mother at the time of the robbery. Cool C's execution was originally scheduled for March 9, , by former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell but was delayed due to litigation issues. Canty and McGlone received life in prison without parole, while Roney was sentenced to death. Cool C is known for his contributions to the Philly rap scene since the late '80s.

Cool C signed to Atlantic shortly after the success of his album Down to the Grissle. Search term. Billboard Pro Subscribe Sign In. Roney was raised in Overbrook, Philadelphia, and attended Overbrook High School during his teenage years. While attending the school, he met Steady B and the two developed a close friendship. Steady B had already earned a recording contract in at the age of sixteen, and Roney's association with him led to the first Cool C song, "Juice Crew Dis" being recorded in The song, released in on Hilltop Hustlers Records, is an attack at the New York-based Juice Crew and was made because diss records gained notoriety for the artist that recorded them Roney most likely had no personal problems with the group.

In , Roney's debut album I Gotta Habit was released. The album is best remembered for the song "Glamorous Life", which became a national hit. Still, the album was successful enough for Roney to release another album on Atlantic, 's Life in the Ghetto. Roney was dropped from Atlantic sometime after the unsuccessful release of Life in the Ghetto.

After their independently-released debut single, "Get the Point", became popular in Philadelphia, the group was signed to Ruffhouse Records.

Their only album, Countin' Endless Bank , was released in to disappointing sales, and the group parted ways with Ruffhouse. When a silent alarm was hit and police arrived at the scene, Roney fired a single shot at officer Lauretha Vaird as she entered the bank. Vaird would later die as a result, making her the first female police officer in Philadelphia to be killed in the line of duty. The three managed to get away from the scene, but Roney and Canty left their guns at the scene and they were tracked down and arrested.

Roney was convicted of first-degree murder, robbery, aggravated assault, and other related charges, and sentenced to death. His execution date has been delayed numerous times for various reasons, and he is still imprisoned in CSI Greene, a maximum-security prison in Greene County, Pennsylvania.