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Jan 20, 2010 · Stringer pays a visit to Donette's apartment and one thing leads to another. (Season 2, Episode 3 "Hot Shots") Featuring Idris Elba and Shamyl Brown.
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Donette is the girlfriend of drug lieutenant D'Angelo Barksdale and the mother of their son. D'Angelo brought her to a party organized by his uncle, Avon Barksdale, shortly after his acquittal where she first met Stringer Bell.
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- Overview
- Biography
- Homicides
- Notes
- References
Russell "Stringer" Bell was the second-in-command to drug kingpin Avon Barksdale. Shrewd and business-savvy, Bell attempted to legitimize the Barksdale Organization by enrolling in university economics courses, investing in real estate, and developing political connections.
Background
Bell was born on September 17, 1969. He grew up in West Baltimore alongside his childhood friends Avon Barksdale and Roland "Wee-Bey" Brice.
Season 1
Bell attended the homicide trial of Avon's nephew and lieutenant D'Angelo Barksdale alongside enforcers Roland "Wee-Bey" Brice, Savino Bratton and Anton "Stinkum" Artis. Their presence served to ensure witness Nakeesha Lyles would retract her earlier identification of D'Angelo. Later that night, Bell informed Barksdale that "the cop who tried to pin Gerard on "Little" Kevin" attended the trial. The next day, Bell demoted D'Angelo to lieutenant of "The Pit". ("The Target") After Omar Little, Brandon Wright, and John Bailey robbed "The Pit", Bell instructed D'Angelo to check his underlings for a potential informant. Bell took Stinkum to survey Avon's new territory with Wee-Bey and Marquis "Bird" Hilton. Stringer received word from D'Angelo that Wallace and Poot had spotted Omar's boyfriend Brandon at a local arcade. Stringer, along with Wee-Bey, Stinkum, and Bird, me Wallace and Poot at the arcade. Posing as police officers, the four abducted Brandon and, in retribution for the robbery and to locate Omar, tortured Brandon to death. They left Brandon's body in the low-rise housing projects. After Omar murdered Stinkum and wounded Wee-Bey, Bell advised Avon to offer Omar a temporary truce. Avon initially rejected Bell's suggestion, but after Omar nearly killed him, he agreed with Bell's advice. Bell persuaded Avon to give up his pager so that he could act as a buffer between Avon and the rest of their operation. As Avon and Bell became suspicious of a potential law enforcement investigation, Bell attempted to identify potential informants and minimize wiretap success. He instructed D'Angelo to withhold pay from his subordinates for two weeks, believing the ones who did not request money were being paid as informants. To foil wiretaps, Stringer ordered D'Angelo's crew to abandon the nearby payphones and walk longer distances to other phones instead. Bell ordered the murder of Wallace, a witness to the kidnapping of Brandon. Bell attempted to identify Wallace's whereabouts from D'Angelo. D'Angelo, realizing the threat to Wallace, informed Bell that Wallace had left the drug trade. Bell learned from Bodie Broadus, D'Angelo's second-in-command, that Wallace had returned to working for D'Angelo. Bell ordered Bodie to murder Wallace. He also ordered Wee-Bey to murder Nakeesha Lyles. After Avon was arrested Bell assumed de facto leadership of the Barksdale Organization. After D'Angelo learns of Wallace's murder, Bell abandoned D'Angelo. Bell rewarded Bodie's loyalty and promoted him to run their operation at Tower 221 in Franklin Terrace.
Season 2
Stringer faces a serious problem: the Barksdale crew's usual supplier, a Dominican named Roberto, was under investigation by the DEA. The Dominicans refused to deal with Avon, believing that he might have informed on them in exchange for a lighter sentence. Avon was unable to find a decent alternative despite suggesting connections in Philadelphia and Atlanta and Stringer grew desperate. Stringer had secretly become involved with Donette, D'Angelo's ex-girlfriend. He used the relationship to keep watch on the young Barksdale, growing concerned at D'Angelo's increasingly hostile attitude towards his uncle. When D'Angelo cut himself off from his family, Stringer grew worried that he might turn on them. He organized a contract killing through a connection in Washington, DC. Stringer's connection, Leech, had his cousin, Mugs, strangle D'Angelo in prison and stage the death as a suicide. Stringer was emphatic that Avon could not learn of his actions. Stringer's relationship with Avon began to fray further as he secretly agreed to share Barksdale territory with Proposition Joe in exchange for Joe's higher-quality heroin, an idea which Avon vehemently opposed. Avon hired legendary New York enforcer Brother Mouzone to chase Proposition Joe's dealers out of the Barksdale towers. Stringer had to maneuver carefully to preserve his alliance with Joe while keeping it secret from Avon; he solved this problem by tricking Omar into shooting Mouzone by blaming him for Brandon's death. After Mouzone returned home, Avon grudgingly agreed to Stringer's proposal, but the two were no longer as close as they had been before.
Personal
•Brandon Wright: Tortured to death along with Stinkum, Wee-Bey and Marquis Hilton. (2002)
Proxy
•Toreen Boyd: Shot in the back of the head in the Low Rise pit by Wee-Bey to take over the Low Rises. (2001) •Roland Leggit: Shot to death by Wee-Bey on orders of Stringer and Avon. (2001) •Maurice Scroggins: Shot by Wee-Bey on orders from Stringer and Avon. (2001) •William Gant: Shot in the back of the head by Bird, on orders from Avon and Stringer for trying to get D'Angelo sent to prison. (2002) •John Bailey: Shot by Wee-Bey and Bird, Avon and Stringer ordered them to kill him for robbing D'Angelo's crew. (2002) •Wendell "Orlando Blocker: Shot and killed by Wee-Bey and Little Man for snitching. (2002) •Wintell "Little Man" Royce: Shot by Wee-Bey, Stringer and Avon wanted Little Man gone for shooting Kima Greggs. (2002) •Nakeesha Lyles: Shot by Wee-Bey, Stringer and Avon thought that she could tell the courthouse that she was bribed to save D'Angelo. (2002) •Wallace: Shot and killed by Bodie and Poot for snitching on Stringer Bell when Wallace turned witness against him for the murder of Brandon. (2002) •5 inmates in Jessop: All overdosed by Hot shots as Avon and Stringer set up Dwight Tilghman. (2003) •D'Angelo Barksdale: Garrotted from behind by Mugs which Stringer used his cousin to contact him and make it look like a suicide as Stringer feared D'Angelo could snitch on him and also have Donette. (2003) •Tosha Mitchell: Accidentally shot in the head by Dante when Omar and his crew were on the rob of Stringer's crew that didn't go well. (2004)
•Stringer's name is a composite of two real Baltimore criminals, Stringer Reed and Roland Bell.
1.Jesse Walker (2006). Localist Television. Reactionary Radicals. Retrieved on 2006-07-22.
Stringer secretly becomes involved with D'Angelo's girlfriend, Donette, using the relationship to keep an eye on D'Angelo. When D'Angelo cuts himself off from the rest of his family, Stringer secretly arranges with a connection in Washington, DC to have him killed .
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