He's one of the most notorious names on the street who claims to have been shot fourteen times and has three bullets lodged in various parts of his body. Well, last night Herman "Yagga" Morris was hit by bullet number 15 this one in his head and, again, has lived to tell the tale. Yagga was ambushed inside his Raccoon Street Extension yard and once again escaped death but this time only barely. That bullet is lodged in his head as he recovers in the KHMH. When we spoke to him today, the man called Yagga had a message for the shooter.
Herman "Yagga" Morris, Shot
"I hope they know that they will regret this; this one they'll have to have to regret. They will regret this. Definitely I will go for revenge. Definitely I am not playing with any of them."
From his hospital bed a bandaged but defiant Herman "Yagga" Morris vowed revenge on the gunman who ambushed him last night in his own yard. Around 9 pm Yagga returned to the apartment he rents in this lot on the extreme end of Raccoon Street Extension. The gunman apparently hid behind this septic tank. This blood now covered in sand belongs to Yagga. Just minutes before the shooting "Yagga" was with his friend "Jun Jun." He asked us to conceal his identity.
"Jun-Jun,"
"He sent me to go buy the chicken and the man left behind me and told me was going to a house around so. When I got there I bought the chicken and I was coming back and I heard some shots, about two to three shots lick off. "
Keith Swift,
So you believe the guy was waiting in the yard?
"Jun-Jun"
"Yes because when me and him came we didn't see anyone. Anytime the man was right in the yard waiting for him and he was behind the septic tank."
Keith Swift,
You think that if you were hit him they would have shot you?
"Jun-Jun"
"Definitely. If they didn't see me coming they would have shoot up the house and pickney and kids women were in the house and thing."
And while Jun Jun is happy he wasn't shot, Yagga is mad. He isn't mad because he got shot. Yagga is mad because of how he was shot.
Herman "Yagga" Morris,
"Why didn't they approach me like a man. Is that how much fear they have of me? They could have approached me like a man. Treat me like a man and do me what they will do me in my own yard."
Keith Swift,
Why would they want to kill you?
Herman "Yagga" Morris,
"I went through a lot of things in my life, this isn't the first shot I am getting."
Keith Swift,
But somebody wants to kill you.
Herman "Yagga" Morris,
"This makes it the fourteenth time they shot me so somebody is."
Keith Swift,
What would you say to that person?
Herman "Yagga" Morris,
Come do it yourself. If you want me dead come and do it yourself. Guns aren't designed to kill me, they have to grab and stab me up. If they don't stab me, they can't kill me. You get the sense. No gun design to kill me."
For the record, a nine-millimeter was used on "Yagga" last night.
"Yagga" Morris has a bullet in his chest, his rib cage, and two in his head. He has numerous convictions and has spent time in jail. He is currently on bail awaiting trial for allegedly robbing SJC students. He previously spent 5 years in jail on a robbery conviction. We don't know if it is a coincidence but Yagga's cousin Shelton Smith was shot over the weekend.
