Omar: Headshot by a Hopper

Now that everyone's caught up (On Demander's are a week ahead) we can safely pay our respects to Omar. There was never any question of whether or not it would happen. Omar had to go.

With his name that big and his enemies that many, he couldn't survive on the streets of Baltimore anymore. If Omar came back, he wasn't to leave but in a casket.

But while his death was a fait accompli, the question of how Omar would go out remained much in doubt. Once again, Simon and company pulled it off brilliantly. There was no blaze of glory, no final stand. Omar came back for revenge and left headshot by a hopper.

His death was an afterthought, ignored by the newspaper -- and if not for an observant morgue attendant -- mislabeled and forgotten in the afterlife.

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