Man who founded the HARLEM SHAKE was SHOT DEAD in New York!!!!

37 y/o Jesse "Smiley" Rutland, the Co-Founder of the dance crew credited for developing the "Harlem Shake" phenomenon was found shot dead in New York!!

He died on December 10th when someone broke into his Brooklyn home and shot him to death...

29 y/o Kumar Reid was the suspect held in custody for murder. He was later charged with second degree murder

Jesse was part of the Crazy Boyz Dance Crew who was credited for kicking off the world wide phenomenom known as the "Harlem Shake" back in the early 2010's.

His dance moves involves upper-body gyrations based on an Ethiopian dance called Eskista and became mainstream in 2001 and was featured the Harlem shake in his video "Let's Get It"

The Harlem Shake found life again as an internet meme online started the craze where a lone person starts dancing while everyone around them is ignoring them until suddenly everyone in the room starts dancing.

Did you ever do a "Harlem Shake" video? let's see if people did

Jesse - Deceased

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/20/03/4856D71800000578-0-image-m-68_1516419512948.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/20/03/4856FE4000000578-0-image-a-66_1516419488796.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/20/03/4856DB0400000578-0-image-a-73_1516419593707.jpg

You don't fuck with Ajit Pai I guess.

I thought filthy frank was the one who started the harlem shake

What is wrong with your English? Are you an article digesting bot?

Jesus I thought you meant Joji aka Filthy Frank aka the guy who actually created it.