“The Nigerian Prince”
Tyreece was born on 31/10/1993 in Lagos, Nigeria, living with his mother, Father, Younger brother Brayton and his baby sister Alisha. Tyreece's parents met when his father visited London on a business trip and instantly fell in love with his future wife. Tyreece's mother moved to Nigeria with him, settling down, having three kids with her love. Tyreece and his siblings came from a well-off background. His father owned a vehicle dealership, selling sports and supercars to national and international clientele, this led to Tyreece falling in love with cars and working with his father from time to time at the dealership. Tyreece's mother owned a beauty salon, in a popular area of Lagos at which all the gossip of the city could be heard. Early life was good for Tyreece, being the only child, he got whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted. All until Brayton came along. Brayton became the favorite child, getting treated how Tyreece did before Brayton's untimely arrival. After this, Tyreece's behavior went downhill. First, it was his grades at school, his parents never batted an eye. He started to fight daily at school, his parents didn't care. Tyreece realized that he could get away with literally anything, seeing as his parents were too distracted with Brayton. Tyreece hung out in the rougher parts of town, letting out his inner rage in illegal street fights for money. At this point, Tyreece's mother had sent his brother Brayton to live in Peckham with his aunt, in fear that he too would become like Tyreece. Before long, Tyreece had joined a gang called "The Nigerian Brotherhood'' and gained their trust in selling drugs for them. Before long, Tyreece had established himself as a big name in the gang, taking over their manufacturing and distribution of illegal drugs and setting up the sale of illegal, military-grade firearms to other criminal organizations. This led to Tyreece getting the street name of the Nigerian Prince.
Internal Issues
Some Time passed and Tyreece had now established himself as the head of the gang, becoming a crime lord in Lagos. Still, in contact with his parents, he met them on a fortnightly basis at a restaurant his men offered protection for. This would prove to be a mistake. Tyreece had begun to notice small inconveniences in his day-to-day life. Some of his street runners went MIA for an hour or two at a time, people's stories wouldn't match up and small amounts of money and drugs would go missing. The first time, Tyreece was naive and thought "Eh, they're partying, I'll let them have fun." After about 3 weeks, the minor inconveniences stopped and everything started running smoothly. Tyreece had received a call about an opposing gang stepping on his turf, so he and some of his right hands went to the section of turf and found two of his street runners dead, their hands and feet chopped off. A note was attached to one of the bodies. It read, " We are everywhere, we hide in the shadows, we hide in plain sight, you are safe nowhere". Tyreece looked at the bottom of the note to find the name of the location, the name of the location being " The Duke Bar and Restaurant", just below was an arrow to the back of the note, attached was a picture of Tyreece dining with his parents and younger sister Alisha at the restaurant.
Tyreece hurried himself and his right hands into their vehicle and fled the scene. Tyreece sat in his office, staring at the note left for him. Numerous thoughts racing through his mind. "What do they want from me?", "Has someone betrayed me?", "Are they going to kill my family?". With all of these thoughts going through Tyreece's mind, he was blinded by what was right in front of him. Only people in his gang knew where and when he dined with his selective family. He started doing some silent investigation work, narrowing his betrayers list down to two members of his protection service. Tyreece had them bundled into a car and taken to an abandoned warehouse on Lagos' seafront. He tied them both to a chair and sat them at a table, facing each other. Tyreece was out for answers and would do anything to get them. He crouched down at the table, looking left then right numerous times at both of his suspected traitors, speaking in a low but assertive tone "One of you is going to talk, I'm not going to stop till one of you do". Tyreece extended his right hand, having his trusted machete placed in his hand by one of his right hands. Tyreece slowly, one by one, began to remove the fingers of his two targets. Right before he was about to remove a hand, one of them spoke, muttering "It was me". These words cemented Tyreece's suspicions that he was betrayed. Using his full-body motion, he swung his blade and took his betrayer's head clean off. This sent an even clearer message to the rest of the gang, don't betray Tyreece.
Judgement Day
Things are going smoothly now for Tyreece and his gang. Gun sales were through the roof, bringing in millions of dollars per day. Drugs were being produced and sold exponentially and the gang's turf was expanding. The expansion of their turf leads to new clientele, but also new enemies. Tyreece was at his apartment, starting his day when his door was kicked in. Numerous masked men stormed his apartment, all holding Uzi's and shotguns, placing Tyreece at gunpoint. Tyreece complied and before he knew it was tied up, blindfolded, and bundled into a vehicle. After what felt like an eternity of constant left and right turns, Tyreece was bundled out of the trunk and found himself in an empty office, surrounded by even more masked men with a wide array of firearms. Tyreece waited, numerous thoughts running through his mind. Suddenly, the doors to the room opened and a man walked in with two bodyguards. The mysterious man came to a stop in front of Tyreece and crouched down, removing his sunglasses, whispering into his ear "Hello Cousin ''. Tyreece looked up to see a face, covered in burns looking directly into his eyes. "It can't be, '' Tyreece thought to himself. It was his long presumed dead cousin, Michael. The look of shock on Tyreece's face soon turned into a look of horror "You died in that fire, how are you alive?!". Michael with a smug look looked Tyreece dead in the face and said "Luck". In a state of complete shock and horror, Tyreece was unable to speak, whilst Michael proceeded to give Tyreece an almost professional speech about how he'd been watching Tyreece since his early days in the game, fighting in the streets, not missing a minor event in his criminal life, watching from the shadows. Michael went on to explain as to how he was behind the death of some of Tyreece's crew members and had paid some of his men to overthrow him, leaving the note which contained his gang's message, " We are everywhere, we hide in the shadows, we hide in plain sight, you are safe nowhere". The worst was yet to come, Michael pulled out a tablet with 4 camera displays on it. One displayed his mother's beauty salon, the other showed his father's vehicle dealership. The bottom two just displayed two empty rooms. Tyreece looked up at Michael, "What the fuck is this?!" he shouted, to which he was promptly punched in the face. Michael simply looked at him with an expressionless face saying "Watch". After he had said this, Tyreece saw both his mother and father being dragged into the empty rooms with a bag over their heads. Tyreece could do nothing but watch as his parents were brutally murdered in those
dark and dingy rooms. Michael did nothing but laugh, looking at Tyreece saying "Now for the real fun!". Tyreece looked at the CCTV footage and before he could process his parents' deaths, both his father's vehicle dealership and his mother's beauty salon exploded. Tyreece, overwhelmed with emotion leapt up at Michael screaming "You traitor", headbutting him on the nose, to which he was promptly swarmed by Michaels's group and pummeled. When Tyreece regained consciousness, he could hear the steady "beep, beep, beep" of a heart rate monitor. Tyreece steadily opened his eyes and found himself lying in a hospital bed. He looked at his chest and found a note. He slowly opened it, expecting it to be a cryptic message once more. Instead, it was a firm, direct message from Michael. It said, "You have one of two options, either I kill the rest of you, or you take yourself and Alisha and leave Lagos, never to come back. Oh, by the way, you won't be returning to your gang, they're mine now". Tyreece was filled with rage, everything he had worked so hard to achieve had been taken from his grasp, and was being forced to leave his home. Once he had recovered from his injuries, he packed his and Alisha's things and flew to Peckham. Tyreece stopped briefly at his aunt's house on a Council Estate in Peckham, leaving Alisha there, handing his aunt a bag containing roughly £150,000. He looked his auntie in the eyes and whispered softly “Look after yourself” before getting back into the taxi and leaving for London City airport with a one-way ticket to Los Santos.
A New Beginning
Tyreece got off the plane and was instantly met with the hustle and bustle of the city. He hailed for a cab, asking the taxi driver about the city and what prospect of work there was. The taxi driver told Tyreece that gang activity was high and crime was strife, this made Tyreece’s ears perk up. Tyreece began to scheme, thinking of ways to make money. After his taxi fare, Tyreece had $6000 dollars to his name, the lowest amount of money he’d had in a long time. He found a man standing in an alleyway, selling all sorts of items, including lockpicks. Tyreece bought $4500 worth of lockpicks and got to work. By the end of the day, Tyreece had turned his initial investment of $4500 into well over $30,000. Tyreece continued to do this for several weeks, massing up over $300k! Then things went downhill. Tyreece found himself constantly being caught or getting into silly chases with police. He saw an advertisement for LSC and thought “Fuck it, I’ll apply”. He got accepted and began his training, soon becoming a well-respected mechanic and friend to many. Eventually, Tyreece sought change, itching to return to his criminal ways. The following day of his initial thought of returning to crime, he handed over his badge and keycards, leaving LSC for good. Now, once again, Tyreece was all alone in the hustle and bustle of Los Santos. Tyreece had come across many criminals from all sorts of different gangs during his time at LSC. The most common being LSD. Tyreece hangs out with drift, driving round with them in his Cheetah Classic. A lot of hardship followed Tyreece, which led him to return to Peckham for a couple of months for his uncle's funeral and to see his family he left behind. When Tyreece had returned, the criminal underground of the city had changed drastically, some gangs were no more, some just established and few had taken the top of the hill. Tyreece sought out some old friends he met in prison, Deandre Boreland and Kentrell Williams. Tyreece hangs around at Grove Street, meeting new faces and doing a new array of illegal activities he would be doing for the first time like cooking, robbing stores and robbing banks. Tyreece eventually joined The Original Covenant Ballas. Tyreece’s time in Ballas was filled with highs and lows. There would be times when everything seemed to be going right for Ballas, but issues with the high command caused friction in the group, causing members to leave, including Tyreece. This, once more, left Tyreece alone. Tyreece decided to take a step back and sort some things out within himself, spending most of his days fishing at the pier, not for the money, more for the tranquility of the views. One mid-winter morning, Tyreece received a call from an unrecognized number, bringing the phone to his ear. “Hello? Who is this? '' Tyreece said in a bewildered tone, Tyreece got a single sentence in reply “It’s Tony, come by Forum Drive in an hour”. Tyreece dropped what he was doing and went to Forum Drive as quickly as he could. He came to find Tony ``Big T” Solicetto huddled around with his closest friends and family. He came up to Tyreece, simply saying “You in?”. Tyreece recognized a lot of people there from his past ventures in the city. Most notably, Caesar Ares, former ZT leader. Without thinking a “Fuck yes” came from Tyreece’s mouth, he was in Kilo Tray Disciples. Initially, things were good, the HQ was buzzing with members, jobs were going well, overall, everyone was making money and was content. This slowly started to change. There were less and less people at the HQ daily, there were small disagreements between members and ultimately, indecisiveness between high command. This culminated in former members of ZT leaving KTD and a couple other members following suit. Tyreece had enough of the miscommunication and the general stagnant vibe of KTD, that he decided to go MIA and not return.
The Princes Bounce Back
For the third time in his tenure of his stay in the vibrant city of Los Santos, Tyreece found himself alone, a somewhat common theme for him now. He got in touch with some old friends, one from Lost and one from LSD and just hung out, having a good time. This is when Tyreece was reintroduced to an old friend, Nick Davies, formerly of LSD, now a member of Royals. Tyreece contacted Nick about the possibility of being introduced to some members of Royals as Tyreece was familiar with a couple of members already. Nick got to work, contacting his high command and setting up a meeting. Tyreece had just got out of the DOC and received a text from Nick, saying that his high command was in town and wanted to meet, Tyreece agreed and waited for a pickup. Before he knew it, Tyreece had been whisked to Royals’ palace for a HQ. This was by far the most impressive thing Tyreece had seen since he came to Los Santos. Tyreece followed Nick to the garden where he met Blaze Jackson and Paige West. Before they got started, they patted Tyreece down for any wires or recording devices. Tyreece began to think to himself, “Shit, these are some serious motherfuckers''. Tyreece complied and was able to proceed speaking to his hopefully soon to be High Command. Blaze and Paige gave Tyreece a rundown of how the group operated, their morals, who they were good with, bad with etc. More members showed up, all introducing themselves to Tyreece and welcoming him as one of their own. After what seemed like an eternity and a bundle of questions, it was decided that Tyreece was to join the Royals as a Jester. Finally, Tyreece felt as if he had found a family.
