Welcome to Arrest Stories. Memphis rapper Richard Maurice Colbert, known for his hit song "Hit the Quan," was arrested following an eleven-hour SWAT standoff at a Plantation, Florida home that he livestreamed on social media. Here's what may have happened.
On February tenth, two thousand twenty six, thirty-three-year-old Richard Colbert barricaded himself inside a rented home in the eighty-six hundred block of Gatehouse Road in Plantation. The incident began after Memphis Police Department officers had pulled over a Mercedes at Poplar Avenue and Ridgeway Road, where they discovered two men inside the vehicle had been shot. The two victims told police they were inside the car at an apartment when the shooting occurred.
What followed was a nearly four-hour initial standoff that extended into an eleven-hour ordeal. Colbert, who was apparently experiencing some kind of episode, livestreamed the entire confrontation on Instagram from inside the residence. The SWAT team responded to the scene and forced their way into the garage, overturning a Tesla that was parked outside the home.
During the livestream, Colbert made several statements to his online audience. "I am thinking about my daughter. Alright, let me tell you something, white man. OK? Let me tell you something, white man. I am thinking about my daughter… keep me protected. I don't got no guns, just my eye. I can prove, I don't got nothing. If they kill me, bro, they was trying to stop me from making their movie because it was going to be the best movie ya'll ever seen," Colbert said during the broadcast.
Police communicated with Colbert through loudspeakers throughout the standoff. Video footage from the livestream shows the moment of surrender early Tuesday morning, with Colbert emerging through the garage. "Don't kill me, my hand's up, my hand's up!" Colbert was heard saying as he surrendered. Officers responded with commands: "Stay right there, stay right there! Do not move, do not move!"
The standoff had begun on February fifth when Colbert started what witnesses described as a five-day spiral on social media, during which he claimed he was God and didn't need to sleep.
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