Rich Porter

The 2002 film Paid in Full was based on the life and death of Rich, and his involvement in drug dealing along with Azie Faison and Alpo Martinez. His character was portrayed by fellow Harlem native Mekhi Phifer. Richard Porter and the kidnapping and murder of his 12 year-old brother are also the subject of an episode of the FBI Files (Season 03, Episode 18) "The C-11 Squad".

He was murdered on January 3rd, 1990 and his body was found the next day in the vicinity of Orchard Beach, Bronx. He had been shot several times in the head and chest, and police found $2,239 in his pocket. His friend and former drug dealing partner Alpo Martinez was charged and convicted of his murder. On December 5, 1989 his 12-year-old brother William Porter was kidnapped in Harlem on his way to school and then had his finger cut off in order to extort $500,000 in ransom money from Rich. He was eventually killed and his body was found on January 28, 1990, a mile away from where Rich's body was found and less than a month after Rich's murder.

Richard Porter (July 26, 1965 – January 3, 1990), better known as Rich Porter, was an American drug dealer who rose to prominence in the Harlem borough of New York City during the War on Drugs in the mid–1980s. Porter was described by the police as being a "mid-level crack dealer" who "sold about $50 thousand worth of crack a week". The 2002 film Paid in Full was based on Rich and his partners Azie Faison and Alpo Martinez.