Anwan Glover Dealt with Real Life Violence
Anwan Glover, a musician in BackYard Band who played Slim Charles of the Barksdale Organization on the show, found himself dealing with real life violence after shooting The Wire. The then 41-year-old actor was stabbed at a Washington, D.C. nightclub by two men he didn’t know. He later wrote on his Instagram, “My flesh may be stabbed, but my spirit is unbreakable.”
Glover’s brother died in a gang shooting in 2007, and Glover was reportedly shot at thirteen times while growing up in the Columbia Heights neighborhood. His son was also wounded in 2011 in a shooting at a party. Glover wasn’t the only one to experience a brush with violence.
