“I don’t care who your daddy is, I’ll kill your ass.” That’s the line Tia Kemp says a gunman threw at her son, William Roberts III, right before cracking him across the head with a pistol near his college campus.
Kemp, 50, who shares William with Rick Ross, laid out the full story on Cam Newton’s Funky Friday podcast on Friday, Nov. 13. Her version paints a picture of a confrontation that could have ended far worse.
According to Kemp, William had been talking to a girl for a month or two and brought her backstage at Ross’s homecoming concert at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, in September. “So, I guess this kid probably got jealous of that,” she said.
Two weeks later, she says William was on campus with the girl and her friend when a car pulled up. “A guy get out, walk up to them,” Kemp explained. She added that he went to the girl first and said, “Hey, this what we doing,” while pointing the gun at her face.
Then came the threat and a single blow to the head. What stuck with Kemp most was how her son handled it. “My son said he stood there and he just looked at him because ‘mom, he was waiting on a response and he was going to kill me,'” she recalled.
She called William “so smart and so humble and so disciplined” for backing away without saying a word. She also admitted he told her that without the gun, he would have tackled the guy and “broke his neck.” The girls then called police.
Kemp has her own theory on why William was targeted. “He’s a student athlete, who’s child he is, he’s good looking, got his own apartment,” she said, pointing to his nice truck too. On the podcast, she went further and wondered aloud if the attacker had been “hired.”
The police paperwork lines up closely with her account. An affidavit obtained by PEOPLE says William reported on Oct. 11 that he was talking to a woman at the corner of McLeod Ave. and Weaver St. when Don Roberts III, 20, got out of his vehicle yelling, “That’s what we doin’.” William told officers he believed the remark was about the woman, who had previously dated Don.
The affidavit says Don aimed a tan handgun and said, “I don’t care who your daddy is, I’ll kill you right here.”
He was booked on Oct. 16 on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
Don was released on a $50,000 bond on Oct. 21 and was arraigned on Nov. 10. The case is still working its way through the courts.
Then there’s 50 Cent, who rarely misses a chance to needle Ross. He posted Don’s mugshot on Instagram, writing, “I got him he will be out tomorrow I’m sending @drewfindling.”
He called it “a big misunderstanding” and “a street fight,” joking that “STREET FIGHTER is in theaters! LOL.”
Kemp wasn’t laughing. She fired back in his comments, “U have NO room to post anyone’s child,” per Complex, and with the criminal case still open, the fallout is far from over.
