A new indictment has revealed more (alleged) details of the April shooting at Lil Wayne's tour bus in Atlanta. Former Rich Gang affiliate Jimmy Winfrey, aka PeeWee Roscoe, is currently incarcerated for the bus shooting and he's now been charged with "terroristic threats" for allegedly telling Wayne he'd "spray his bus." An indictment last month named Birdman and Young Thug as co-conspirators in the plot to kill Wayne, though neither man has yet been charged.
Shots were indeed fired at Wayne's bus at around 3:30 AM on April 26 but, luckily, no one on board was hurt.
An indictment from mid-July stated that, on the night of the shooting, Winfrey was kicked out of an Atlanta club where Wayne was performing for harassing the Free Weezy Album rapper. After the show, as soon as Wayne's bus was no longer accompanied by a police escort, a white Chevy Camaro (Winfrey) approached the bus on I-285 and opened fire. The indictment ties the Camaro to Winfrey because the car was supposedly seen on Winfrey's Instagram, in a post that has since been deleted, and was later found at a house belonging to one of Winfrey's relatives.
Both Birdman and Young Thug were named in that same indictment, which accused them of ordering Winfrey to fire the shots, though neither man has yet been charged.
Just last week, TMZ claimed they had court documents revealing Winfrey's belief that Birdman's financial dispute with Lil Wayne (Wayne's $51 million lawsuit against Cash Money) is what led to the shooting.
In last month's interview with Angie Martinez, Birdman called those accusations "the craziest sh*t I've ever heard in my life." More recently, Birdman has said, "No legal battle would ever make me try and kill or hurt my son," according to TMZ.
In July, Young Thug was arrested on "terroristic threats," though in a seemingly unrelated case, for threatening an Atlanta mall cop. He was released on $21,000 bond a few days later.
Winfrey has been denied bond and remains in jail on charges of aggravated assault, possession of a firearm by a felon, criminal gang activity and, now, terroristic threats. His lawyer, Manny Arora, believes there's not sufficient evidence, "no eyewitnesses at the scene" and "conflicting witness statements about a getaway vehicle."
If Winfrey is being held due to the same gang-related conspiracy to which Birdman and Young Thug have potential ties, Arora doesn't understand why only his client being held. "If you're accused to be doing crimes with other folks, then everybody needs to be charged," he told WSB-TV Atlanta. He also feels the whole case has been overdramatized due to lack of evidence.
"This has turned into a RICO indictment with gang affiliations and record deals and rappers and this, and it makes it really sexy. That's why you and I are talking. If this was a traditional shooting case, nobody would care."
See PeeWee Roscoe in Young Thug's "Halftime" video below.
