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	Name: Peter Jerome Cunningham
	Race: Black
	Age Now: 26
	Height: 5'9"
	Weight: 150 lbs.
	Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Black clean shaven
	Eyes (Color and Correction): Brown
	Other Physical Characteristics: light complexion, thin build, long neck.
	Wanted for : Homicide, Lauderhill, FL; Sep 20, 2002

	Location(s)
	Last Seen : Lauderhill, FL
	Possible Location : Bronx, NY
	Last Known : Unkown

	Traits
	Suspected of selling marijuana. Never been in trouble with the law prior to the shooting of Jason Tavares. At the time, Cunningham was only nineteen years old. No prior work history. Lived with his father. Soft spoken

	Case Story
	Disco Legend Turns To AMW For Justice
	The R&B singing group Tavares was one of the biggest acts of the 1970's. Tavares was comprised of five Cape Verdean-American brothers from New Bedford, Massachusetts. The brothers,Tiny, Ralph, Pooch, Butch, and Antone "Chubby" Tavares, began their music career in the 1960's as "Chubby and The Turnpikes," performing cover songs at clubs throughout New England. In the early 1970's, Tavares finally scored a record deal with Capitol Records and released their first single, "Check It Out". That song cracked the top ten on the charts, and the group was suddenly on the music world's map. The Tavares' sound was signature sweet harmonies, with the brothers switching up the leads effortlessly from song to song. The group really exploded in popularity after their release of two successful albums, "Hard Core Poetry" and "In The City." Their recording of the Hall and Oates-penned song, "She's Gone" went to number one on the charts. But Tavares' biggest success would come from their contribution to the soundtrack of the 1978 blockbuster movie, "Saturday Night Fever." The film defined the disco cultural phoenomenon and took what had been an underground New York dance culture global. Tavares performed the two most memorable songs on the Bee Gee's-written soundtrack, "Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel" and "More Than A Woman". The soundtrack was the album of the year, and earned a Grammy for Tavares. As the 70's faded into the 80's, Tavares continued to perform to enthusiastic audiences around the world, but Chubby and his brothers began to settle down and raise their children. Chubby's youngest son, Jason, was born in 1979. At that time, Chubby and his wife Miriam settled in Sunrise, Florida, near Miami. Jason was a bubbly boy, who grew to love sports. "He was probably one of the best hockey players to come out of the city of Sunrise and I was so proud of him," Chubby told AMW reporter Tom Morris Jr. during a taped interview in January 2004. By the time Jason turned 23 in 2002, he had developed a love for music and was planning to follow in this famous father's footsteps. Jason and his two childhood friends, John Marzulli and Tommy Gartuola had formed a rap group called Universal Law. "It was his time to shine," says John, "and it just turned out to be Hip Hop, so even if it wasn't in the 70's style of music, either way the Tavares name was still gonna continue."

	A Dream Shattered In One Fateful Night
	By 2002, Jason was the father of a one-year old son, but his relationship with the child's mother, Dania Lopes, had deteriorated and they were no longer a couple. Chubby Tavares was living in New Bedford, after he and Jason's mother Miriam were divorced. Jason, now 23, spent most of his formulative years growing up in south Florida with his mom. But after he graduated from high school, he moved to New Bedford, and lived with his father for a while before returning to West Palm Beach. "My son was a kid like a lot of kids who liked to smoke a little pot," Chubby says. "I used to tell him that you can't do that, that's illegal." Despite his father's warnings, on the night of September 20th, 2002, Jason and his buddies, Tommy and John, were looking to cop some weed. But none of their friends had any, so Jason looked outside of their normal connections. Police say he was eventually put in touch with a 19-year-old Jamaican named Peter Jerome Cunningham. Cunningham lived with his father in the Miami suburb of Lauderhill in a somewhat dicey neighborhood the local kids called "Deepside". According the police and Jason's friends, Jason and his buddies scrapped together money to buy some pot, and Jason gave the money to Cunningham on the afternoon of September 20. Police say Jason was supposed to go back to Deepside later in the day to pick up the marijuana from Cunningham. But that evening, Jason called Tommy and John with some bad news. They say he told them that Cunningham, who none of them knew personally, had stiffed them. Cunningham reportedly claimed that he had given another person the cash to buy the marijuana, and had ended up without Jason's money, and without the weed. But Jason didn't buy Cunningham's story, and told Tommy and John that he was going back over to Deepside and try to straighten the situation out. Tommy and John insisted on going with him.

	"Out Came The Gun, And The Bullets Started Poppin'"
	When Jason, Tommy and John pulled up in front of the Villa apartments in Lauderhill, it was around 11:00 p.m. According to Tommy and John, they got out of Jason's car and walked up to Peter Cunningham, who was standing on the sidewalk with eight or so other kids milling around him. John describes what happened next, "Jay walked up to this one kid who had a t-shirt tied around his head and had words with him. The kid said he didn't want no trouble. Jay pulled out his cell phone and made a call. We all started walking away thinking things were cool. Then all of a sudden, the kid with the shirt on his head (Cunningham) pulled out a gun and just started lettin' off shots. He shot Jay in the back, then fired on me and Tommy as we took cover behind the car. Then he jumped in a car driven by some other kid and took off. Jay was on the ground. We couldn't believe what had just happened. We through Jay in some kid's car and took off for the nearest hospital. We kept screaming at Jay to hold on...don't die on us." Jason Tavares was pronounced dead a few minutes later. That night, Chubby Tavares recieved a phone call in New Bedford that changed his life forever. His pride and joy, his youngest son, was dead.

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