Employees of the radio station said they were shocked to see a colleague known as Paddy Duke in a new HBO documentary about the racist murder of a Brooklyn teenager in 1989.
Source: New York Times
Hot 97 Fires Rap Radio Veteran for Ties to Yusuf Hawkins Killing
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