seems like a million years ago but king was essentially the biggest black gangster in cleveland during the 50's. He had the largest numbers operation going on and dealt with shonder as he was responsible for paying shonder for back up from rival blacks. He owed shonder money and didnt want to pay him, so shonder arranged for king to be killed. There was a bomb placed under his porch that went off , and he was shot at multiple times before king eventually retired and under police pressure of at trial he eventually left town. Also in the mix shonder has his own problems as he was killed, and the mini war between them ended.