<P> Kenard follows Omar into a Korean - owned convenience store . Omar, seeing the small boy, pays no attention to him but Kenard shoots Omar in the side of the head, killing him . This is a reference to some of the foreshadowing in Season 3 when Kenard is witnessed by Bunk imitating Omar at the Barksdale stash house shootout . News of Omar's death is received with mild amusement and indifference . Bunk shows some sympathy, which he brushes aside when he learns Omar was once again "on the hunt". McNulty and Lester Freamon react with mere curious interest and instead focus on a list of names found on Omar's body . The newspaper makes no mention of the incident for lack of printing space . </P> <P> An employee at the morgue believes the identification tag on Omar's body has been switched with that of a white male on the neighboring table and swaps the tags . In the series finale, Michael Lee is seen wielding a shotgun, carrying on with Omar's legacy, while robbing Vinson and shooting him in the leg . </P> <P> A brief prequel released before season five and on the season five DVD set features a young Omar, his brother Anthony, and an unidentified older boy planning and executing a robbery of a man at a bus stop in 1985 Baltimore . Even as a young boy, Omar shows remarkable intelligence, morality, and force of character by first questioning the value of robbing the man and then compelling the unidentified older boy (at gunpoint) to return the money . Anthony expresses tired amusement at Omar's actions, demonstrating his familiarity with his brother's forceful personality . Omar is shown with his characteristic facial scar, indicating that he somehow received it as a child . </P> <P> At the end of this segment, the unidentified boy tells Anthony that his brother is not "cut out" for their line of work, an ironic foreshadowing of what would happen to Anthony some years later . After bungling a jewelry store heist, Anthony was pursued by police . Apparently sensing he was about to be caught, and unwilling to do hard time, Anthony put a gun to his chest and pulled the trigger . He survives the suicide attempt, however; only receiving a contact wound . After this incident, he earned the derisive nickname "No Heart" Anthony . </P>

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