More Bad Stuff On Good Stuff Diner Shooting

Victim "Young Classik"

More information has been released about the shooting at the Good Stuff Diner on 14th street early yesterday morning. The victim was Corey Scott, 28, who was shot several times in the back of the head after a heated argument with other customers. Police are on the hunt for the shooter, reviewing the surveillance footage which captured the attack in the all-night diner.

Scott was an ex-con with more than a few brushes with violence: in 2007 he was nearly stabbed to death at Fusion on West 28th street, after fighting with a patron at that club, according to the Post. The Brooklyn man was also accused of robbing and beating to death Gene Hop, a 57-year-old father of four in 2004, and was charged with manslaughter (he was acquitted according to Hop's family). He was currently on parole for a robbery conviction. According to the Post, Scott went by the name "Young Classik," and has several videos on YouTube.

Many locals were blaming the late-night, rowdy crowd that siphoned out of local clubs for the aggressive reputation the diner is getting: "I mean, this is a really hot, happening area near the Meatpacking District with a lot of people around, coming from a lot of the outer areas too," one customer told CBS. Outside of the late night club crowd, Good Stuff is popular with many LGBT groups, thanks to a nearby LGBT Community Center less than two blocks away. Good Stuff was also the winner of Time Out Magazine's Best Manhattan Diner Award, as voted by readers in 2008.

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By Ben Yakas in News on October 24, 2010 12:15 PM

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billyjack44

"No one is perfect"..."I'm not judging Scott, but...". You people are total, complete as*hats. So incredibly fu**ing clueless, that you cannot even begin to identify who amongst us would be any kind of threat to society. The dude was a piece of garbage, period. Brain salad with skull croutons, yum.

thefacts

Was he an aspiring rap artist as well?

freddynyc

I can sleep well tonight knowing that this scumbag died a violent death. However, my only regret is that he didn't die a long lingering death...

Crapola

I wonder if they put him in a Gucci body bag.

OSN!

Boot his family out of the projects. Boot them off welfare,food stamps,section 8,WIC,etc., Build more max prisons to lock them away.

inoyourider

What a piece of garbage.

His death benefits society.

McFister

28 isn't really that young.

Sinchy

This Classik dude and his friends are basically advertising themselves as criminal drug dealers in their YouTube vids. Just from perusing theirs vids and other like vids you would wonder if the IRS didn't have a YouTube monitoring bureau just to get these guys on tax evasion.

Also attention mafia stickup artists: search youtube to see what idiots roll around with massive stacks of cash in their laps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAQ-nU03nkM&NR=1

Sinchy

Just watch the link to his YouTube video and tell me this guy wasn't heading for jail or death by gun. Anyone watching the video would be able to tell that this guy was a criminal, and a douchebag. Quote "if you'se a faggot tho, kill your self" then he goes on to say he sells guns so if you need one to kill yourself get at him.

This guy was a piece of shit and may have deserved the violent death he came to.

That said his shooter should be sent to jail for a long time.

ronshapley

Yup.....another successful urban renewal project. Here ..here !!!!

jaycjay

"Many locals were blaming the late-night, rowdy crowd that siphoned out of local clubs for the aggressive reputation the diner is getting"

Were they? What do they blame it on now?

Peter

Young Classic's family should be required to reimburse the shooter for the cost of the bullets.

kazubes

so tragic, I weep at the thought of NYC losing this bright star

News101

No one is perfect people do bad things in many ways and no one deserves this he was a good guy wasn't perfect but none of us are.

justthinkin

You're joking, right? If not, then you better pick out a nice suit, cause you're probably going to end up in the box next to his. When it comes to my tax dollars and his life, better that the latter was wasted rather than the former.

justthinkin

You're joking, right? If not, then you better pick out a nice suit, cause you're probably going to end up in the box next to his. When it comes to my tax dollars and his life, better that the latter was wasted rather than the former.

Guest

From the Post:

"[Scott] was arrested in 2004 on murder and robbery charges for brutally beating 57-year-old Gene Hop, taking his wallet and offering cash to silence a witness, sources said. Hop had been carrying more than $1,000 to buy a son a computer.

Andy Tho, Hop's son, said Scott was acquitted on all charges, although the Brooklyn DA's Office could not immediately confirm the outcome of the case."

I am not perfect. But I've never robbed and murdered a 57 year-old man who'd wanted to buy his son a computer that day. I'm not judging Scott, and I hope that the shooter gets caught -- anyone who hurts others physically shouldn't be walking around freely in this society.

"Anyone who draws the sword will die by the sword" -- while this quote still doesn't apply at all to innocent victims of violent crime, it's a good rule of thumb for thugs or would-be thugs. I've read it from the Bible, and although I'm not a Christian, it's one of the few things I keep with me.

Guest

The quote also doesn't apply to people acting in self-defense, and etc, etc, etc. Bible quotes are like that; once people get too serious about them, it turns into shit. I try to take them as lightly as I can.

Light.

It's still a really good quote for thugs and/or would-be thugs.

ok, i'm going back to not using the shift-key. things get too serious and my caps-lock goes on at the right times.

PaulaNYC

What did you expect of the Brooklyn DA?

Charge a BLACK Gangsta for the murder an innocent ASIAN?

Now, where would there be any political advantage to that?

Reverend Al coming in, calling you a racist.....

No, far better to stay in office and ignore a murder of some Asian guy nobody heard of...

Guest

well, he was indian -- his daughter's name is vidal. but who the fuck cares about people's race anymore? it's so 2009. i tend to stay in fashion. or at least try.