Darnell King Tut Brittingham Died at 23

Damell King Tut was a rapper. He was 23 years old. King Tut was a member of the 730 Dipset. Brittingham died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Darnell Brittingham, of Hackensack in New Jersey, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head Tuesday night in Greenburgh, New York. At the night of March 17, "King Tut " was an aspiring rapper.

According to Hackensack‘s Courier Post, detectives from the Hackensack police department traced Brittingham to a La Quinta Inn in White Plains.When a S.W.A.T. Team witnessed Brittingham emerge from the hotel with a female friend and enter a cab, police surrounded the vehicle and ordered the occupants out.

As police approached the car, they saw Brittingham duck behind the driver’s seat and shoot himself.Darnell “King Tut” Brittingham, for allegedly stabbing and assaulting a female companion, just 48 hours after he was released from jail on drug charges. Brittingham was first arrested on February 11, when he was stopped during a routine traffic stop.

He was arrested after police found 14 grams of cocaine stuffed inside of a teddy bear. Shortly after he made bail on the drug charges, police accused Brittingham of stabbing a female companion seven times before fleeing. “I guess he just decided he wasn't going to go to jail," Police Chief John Kapica told the Courier Post. "We had him, so he couldn't get away, which is probably why he did what he did."