DJ Andre Pugh hired Hitman to kill his wife Tiffany Jackson Pugh

Tiffany Jackson Pugh, the wife of a popular Atlanta DJ, was 30 when she was fatally shot in her home while her two young children were also home.

Pugh’s November 2014 death featured in new two-hour film Data line which aired Friday, May 10 on NBC, sent shockwaves through the Atlanta music scene as fear spread that someone might target the influential DJs who helped promote the careers of young rappers.

“The chilling echo of the murder of another DJ months before raises suspicions of a targeted attack on the city’s music community,” reads the synopsis for the episode titled “Sound and Fury.”

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“It’s far too coincidental that two DJs are experiencing these incidents,” journalist Christina Lee said in a statement. video preview of the Data line episode.

Even more worrying, Pugh’s young son, AJ, was seen in heartbreaking home surveillance footage heading to the front door to seek help after the toddler was unable to wake his murdered mother.

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“Knowing the kids were in the house told me there was no heart, no respect for life — a monster,” Karmetria Burton, a former colleague and friend of Pugh, said of the killer in the house. Data line Preview.

The cold-blooded nature of the crime also struck NBC News correspondent Stephanie Gosk, who reported the story.

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“Tiffany Pugh was shot and killed in her own bed. A 30-year-old mother with her whole life ahead of her,” Gosk said. NBC Insider. “But beyond the cruelty of killing her, (she was shot while) two young children were in the house.

“Andre Jr. was only two years old and often slept in the same bed as his mother,” Gosk continued. “The image from the security cameras of this little boy walking to the front door in his pajamas to seek help will stay with me for a long time.”

For what Tiffany Jackson Pugh’s murder shook Atlanta’s music scene

Just ten months before Pugh’s murder, William Fernando Barnes – known in club circles as DJ Nando – was gunned down outside his home in what Gosk described as an “execution-style murder”.

“This show offers a vivid insight into the Atlanta rap hip hop scene,” said Gosk. NBC Insider. “And while the level of strip club influence on the industry may have waned in recent years, at the time these two murders occurred, Atlanta hip hop was like Nashville country .

“DJs at clubs like Club Onyx have made careers,” Gosk added of the club where Pugh’s husband and DJ Nando worked. “They had enormous power over what people listened to.”

According to Gosk, rapper Jeezy, interviewed for two hours Data line episode, “attributes his huge success” to DJ Nando and is still haunted to this day by the brutal murder.

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Featuring Jeezy, Lee and Burton, the episode also includes interviews with Pugh’s father, Tommy Jackson, Nick Love and Sabrena Swinger.

To find out who wanted the young mother dead, watch Data line Friday, May 10 at 9/8c on NBC or stream the episode the next day on Peacock.

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