It's an easy market to get into. It's when they are competing with real drug dealers that they get into trouble. The lucky ones just get beat up and their pills taken. D.C. Police investigating the slaying discovered a Danny Petrole his family never knew. County police believe Barber was a rival drug dealer.
Authorities say the incident was typical of the violence they are seeing linked with Ecstasy.
As more dealers get involved, violence is going to increase. It's just the nature of the drug game. He had a single gunshot wound in his head. The suspects were charged with murder. Police say that Petronio, thinking the dealer had shortchanged him, stomped him to death.