G-Dep Confesses to Murder; Rapper Didn't Know Victim Died, Says Report

NEW YORK (CBS) Rapper G-Dep, who once performed on Sean "Diddy" Combs' record label, turned himself in to the NYPD to clear his conscience for a shooting during an armed robbery he committed in 1993, reports The New York Post.

But the rapper didn't know that the victim, John Henkel, had died, and he was confessing to murder.

According to The New York Post, G-Dep, whose real name is Trevell Coleman, walked into the 25th precinct in Harlem on Wednesday and confessed to shooting a man three times in the chest.

"I was surprised...for some reason, I really didn't think that he died," Coleman told the New York paper in an jailhouse interview. "When they told me, I was like, 'Oh, I'm not going home after this.'"

The New York Post reports the incident happened when the rapper attempted to rob Henkel. When Henkel resisted, police say G-Dep shot him three times in the chest before disposing of the gun in the East River.

G-Dep told the Post that he was on drugs when he committed the crime and didn't know Henkel personally.

"That's just the life I was living back then," he told the paper. "I started to wonder if all the bad things that happened to me in my life were karma for what I did. . . you start to think 'My happiness is because of someone else's sadness.'

The rapper has been charged with murder and is being held without bail.