Journalist Jamilah King Recounted a Wild Story About Meeting Gianni Versace's Killer

In the tragic murder of icon Gianni Versace, journalist Jamilah King's story about meeting Versace's murderer in an interesting one. The encounter took place in Spring of 1997 in San Francisco only a few months before Versace was murdered. King who was in sixth grade at the time was playing basketball at a local park one day after school and claimed to have noticed a man watching her. The man then approached her to offer her a compliment on her appearance and a $1 bill. She then said she took it "in the desire to buy two baby ruths" (Destefano), and later was shocked to find out that there was a manhunt for a guy on a murder spree that she took a $1 bill from. [126 words, 1 quote, 1 image]