Word to the wise: don't shack up with drug dealers.
THIS! The 'thug life' may seem attractive to 'bad girls', money, drugs, being "cool" as glorified in a lot of Rap music, but the reality is pretty nasty, and can be fatal. That fatality can arise from deals gone bad, attempts to rob the dealer of drugs and/or money, or any number of problems that arise in a dysfunctional environment.
In this case, the active ingredient was a police raid, and that is subject to scrutiny, unlike those killed in shootings done by other thugs.