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Naier Briscoe, 19, is charged with the murder of Abdul Vicks, also known as YBC Dul

Naier Briscoe, 19, is charged with the murder of Abdul Vicks, also known as YBC Dul

A third teen has been charged in the case high-profile murder from a West Philadelphia-based rapper and gang leader this summer.

Naier Briscoe, 19, was taken into custody Wednesday evening on charges of murder and related crimes for his alleged role in the killing of 25-year-old Abdul Vicks, aka YBC Dul, in a drive-by shooting in August.

Briscoe also faces a second murder charge for his role in another shooting just days before he killed Vicks, police said. In the early morning hours of August 19, Briscoe and others shot more than two dozen bullets in a car full of teenagers in the 200 block of East Duncannon Street in Olney, according to police. Marquise Sanders, 16, was shot in the head and killed, while another 16-year-old was seriously injured.

His arrest follows that of Aiden Waters, 16in September, and Rashawn Williams, 18the following month. Waters is also charged in the Duncannon Street shooting, as well as a third shooting the day before, a 14-year-old and 43-year-old man were injured.

Law enforcement officials said the three teens are associated with an Olney street group known as “Fastbreak” and that they targeted Vicks in part because of his fame as a local rapper. Vicks, better known as “Mr. Disrespectful,” was the main face of a Mantua-based gang known as the Young Bag Chasers or YBC.

Vicks had made a name for himself in the city’s drill rap scene, mainly for his often killer lyrics mocked the people killed by his gang and othersand even their families. His signature line in many of his songs was, “I don’t care – who you are, I won’t respect you.”

As a result, he built up a long list of enemies, apparently including the young men of Fastbreak.

On the afternoon of Aug. 23, police said, Vicks was driving with one of his friends on the 100 block of West Olney Avenue. As he slowed at a red light, a white car pulled up next to him and at least two people fired multiple shots at the vehicle, striking him multiple times in the hand and chest, according to police.

Vicks’ friend rushed him to Einstein Medical Center, where he died shortly after.

The night Vicks was killed, police said recovered the shooters’ getaway car on the 6900 block of North 15th Street. The car — which had been stolen a week earlier in Cheltenham Township — had been burned, but detectives found ballistic evidence inside, as well as a series of fingerprints along the doors, prosecutors said.

Those fingerprints and bullet casings — as well as witness interviews, social media posts, surveillance footage and prison sentences — ultimately helped lead investigators to the three teens.