A 20-year-old died in a drug deal where the currency was an iPad for heroin.
Malachi Urbini, a student at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, was reportedly shot in the face by 19-year-old Taivon Cunningham. According to police, Urbini had previously handed over his iPod in trade four stamp bags of heroin earlier that night.
Things went awry, according to police, when the Urbini later tried to trade an iPad 2 for more drugs.
At first, a witness told police, Urbini wanted $600 for it but later agreed to exchange the computer for 20 bags of heroin. The two met in an alley in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania early Sunday morning and shots were fired.
Cunningham was arraigned Tuesday morning and denied bail. He faces charges of homicide, robbery and criminal conspiracy.
Via Pittsburgh Post Gazette, WTAE
Nicole Martinelli is a San Francisco freelance writer who heads up Cult of Mac Magazine, our weekly publication available on iTunes. You can find her on Twitter and Google+. If you’re doing something new, cool and Apple-related, email her.
30 responses to “Student Killed in iPad-for-Heroin Trade”
Deserved it. Sorry, but it’s the truth.
Sensationalist tripe. Keep it coming COM.
The Tag line says iPad the story says iPod? Get your shit together.
find-my-iPhone alone doesn’t make a skilled betrayer
Get your shit together and read the entire article.
The news article I read said he was shot in the “trunk”, not the face. Additional information made it sound as if he was running away after a first shot was fired. From what I understand, he had been through rehab a few times…but obviously, that didn’t work. I know his mother…and I know people always say things like “he deserved it”…but he wasn’t a bad person…most people thought he was a good kid with a bad problem. I know his mother didn’t deserve what happened to her son on mother’s day.
Why is this news here? Nothing to do with Apple. Get the poor guys face off the site, and leave this kind of story to local news, where it scarcely belongs either.
This is NOT what you ought to be covering.
you fail! xD
This is typical of Nicole’s “journalism” of things Apple related. Cult of Mac should have cut her loose a LONG time ago. Someone needs to create the ability to filter OUT contributor/author in blogs like this.
i love how someone with the name be sweet is anything but. people have addictions. it doesn’t make them unredeemable. too bad there isn’t a rehab for assholes.
This what we get when you have nothing to write about…..drug deals?
This guy didn’t deserve getting shot in the face over an iPad 2. The lines outside Apple stores aren’t that long anymore.
ipad 2 for drugs? what is the ipad 2 coming to?
not the type of story I am interested in reading about.
20 bags of heroin would’ve cost the dealer less than $200…they both could’ve made out fine.