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Joe Fierro, a bodyguard for N.W.A who was known as KJ Mustafa, died yesterday in Pleasanton, California. He was 61. Fierro was right in the thick of things during the Compton-based gangsta rap group’s most volatile years. As head of security for their label, Ruthless Records, he was in charge of protecting the group at a time when countless people were gunning for them, both figuratively and literally. For N.W.A’s first national tour in 1989, shortly after the release of Straight Outta Compton, Fierro gave the group firearm training. For all their bravado, it turns out they didn’t really know how to handle guns. “Dre was ... wanting to shoot the way they show you on TV,” Fierro told me in an interview last year, “sideways, like a gangster.” Eazy-E, meanwhile, had all sorts of weapons at his disposal — “.38s, .45s, M-16s” — but had no experience beyond “street shooting.” So on their tour, they stopped at firing ranges and he showed them the ropes. At each tour stop, Fierro also was in charge of smoothing things over with local law enforcement, who were furious over N.W.A’s song “Fuck tha Police.” A Vietnam veteran (KJ, short for "Killer Joe," was his military nickname) who was also a karate specialist, Fierro put his life on the line for the group. He was shot in the hand following a 1991 show in Seattle, he says, when a disgruntled fan followed them back to the hotel and started firing. (I couldn’t find any news accounts of the incident, but the bullet scars he showed me on his left hand were very real.)