David Simon has said that Omar is based on Shorty Boyd, Donnie Andrews, Ferdinand Harvin, Billy Outlaw and Anthony Hollie, Baltimore stickup men between the 1980s and early 2000s who robbed drug dealers. In an episode in season 3, Avon asks Slim Charles about available muscle to help them and he inquires about the name "Shorty Boyd", a nod to the former stick up man. Andrews later reformed, got married and helped troubled youths. In season 4, he plays one of the two men Butchie sends to help Omar in prison, in the episodes The Wire: Margin of Error (2006) and The Wire: Unto Others (2006) and Omar later meets up with him at Blind Butchie's in The Wire: That's Got His Own (2006) while planning the big drug robbery. Andrews died at age 58 in New York City on December 13, 2012 after suffering an aortic dissection.
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