Justin Fenton, a crime reporter for The Baltimore Sun, noted this strange (and sad) intersection of reality and television last night. He reached out to Wire creator David Simon, who called the incident “coincidence, completely”, so this Omar Little probably doesn’t have a “get-out-of-jail-free” card from testifying in Bird’s murder trial.
This article appears in Dec 29, 2011 – Jan 4, 2012.
Indeed.