Nearly three years later, alleged BMF member indicted in Velvet Room murder

Fleming “Ill” Daniels (right), who’s believed to be one of the top-ranking members of the alleged multistate cocaine ring the Black Mafia Family, has been indicted in a July 2004 murder that took place in the parking lot behind Midtown’s now-defunct Velvet Room.

The shooting death of Rashannibal “Prince” Drummond had frustrated Atlanta police, in part because a blanket of silence surrounded the incident. Witnesses in investigations involving BMF often have been difficult to track down, and according to investigators, several BMF members — including the crew’s alleged leader, the charismatic and widely revered Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory — were at the club that night.

Daniels, 33, figures prominently in a mini-documentary about the BMF crew, which is headquartered in Atlanta, Detroit and L.A. The video, part of the DVD magazine Smack, shows Daniels regularly at Flenory’s side.

Flenory, who is accused of running BMF’s Atlanta hub, and 40 other alleged BMF members were indicted on federal charges in Detroit in 2005 and are scheduled for trial later this summer. Daniels is not charged in the Detroit indictment.