Woman says NYC Police Stomped Lil Kim's Driver to Death after Traffic Stop

A New York nurse claims police beat Lil' Kim's limousine driver 11 days before he died, it was reported Tuesday. O'Neil Solomon, a former convict who drove rapper Lil' Kim as well as singer Ashanti, died March 4. The medical examiner cited the cause of death as heart disease, the New York Daily News reported. However, Janice Pinheiro, 37, a nurse at St. Vincent's Hospital, filed a citizen's complaint that has sparked an investigation into her allegation that as many as 16 officers stomped Solomon in the head and chest repeatedly after he sped away from a traffic stop in Brooklyn. "I said, 'That's enough," Pinheiro told the News. "Stop the beating, stop the beating. I see everything and I'm gonna report it. You're gonna kill him.'" The nurse said when she complained to officers at the scene, she was handcuffed and taken into the station and later released without being charged. Solomon checked himself into Brookdale University Hospital twice during the next few days, complaining that he felt sick, attorney Lawrence Krause said. He began vomiting violently before dying March 4. [more]