- "Dante was one of my kids. So was Chico. And Shameek, too. Just like those kids playing over there. You know, that's how you get 'em on your side. Sweepin' up hair. Runnin' errands. Lettin' 'em hang out, play video games. Anything is better than what's waiting for them out there on the street. They want a way out but they have too much pride to ask for help."
- ―Pop to Luke Cage[src]
Dante Chapman was a bartender working at Harlem's Paradise. Together with Shameek Smith and Chico Diaz, Chapman robbed the Stokes Crime Family and the Colon Crime Family, however, Smith killed him, thinking that Chapman would give them up.
Biography[]
Junkyard Robbery[]
- "Shameek, what am I gonna do? They're gonna know it was me."
"B, there's, like, a million dollars here."
"Cottonmouth always lookin' down at me at the bar. He's gonna know I'm gone. They gonna know it was a inside job!" - ―Dante Chapman and Shameek Smith[src]
Living in Harlem with his mother, Dante Chapman was among the kids that Pop took care of, so they would not end up on the streets. Chapman became a renowned teenage basketball star, while also working as a bartender at Harlem's Paradise. One day, Chapman overheard Cottonmouth preparing for an upcoming gun deal with Domingo Colon, intending to sell him an experimental weaponry. He informed Shameek Smith and Chico Diaz about the deal, and Smith suggested to rob both gangs and steal their money but Chapman insisted on doing it clean, without any killings. They planned to ambush both gangs at night during the deal at the local junkyard, so Chapman had to skip his shift at the nightclub.
Chapman confronts Shameek Smith
Concealing their faces with ski masks, Champan, Smith and Diaz ambushed members of the Stokes Crime Family and the Colon Crime Family, holding them at a gunpoint. However, Smith suddenly opened fire and started in firefight, despite Chapman warning him not do that. The trio managed to take out all gangsters at the scene, as Chapman saved Diaz by shooting one of the gangsters with his shotgun. Although Smith was ecstatic, Chapman confronted him, saying that now Cottonmouth might find out that it was an inside job, because he had called in sick to work that day. Seeing Chapman freaking out, Smith suddenly shot him, reasoning that Chapman would try to give them up to Cottonmouth to save himself. However, when Smith and Diaz took the money and left, Chapman managed to call Tone and inform him about the robbery before his death.[4]
Equipment[]
Weapons[]
- Mossberg 500 Cruiser: Chapman wielded one of these shotguns during an ambush at a junkyard together with Shameek Smith and Chico Diaz in order to hijack a weapons sale between Colon Crime Family and Stokes Crime Family, in order to seize the money. As one of the gangmembers tried to kill Diaz, Chapman shot him with his shotgun to save his friend.
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Behind the Scenes[]
- Duwaun White was a stunt double for Hugues Faustin in the role of Dante Chapman.
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