Rapper Julio Foolio is dead, shot dead in a parking lot

Rapper Julio Foolio has diedshot dead in Tampa in the hours following his birthday celebrations in Tampa. The news is reported by the BBC, which quotes the words of his lawyer. The circumstances in which Foolio died will certainly need to be clarified with more specific details, but what we know at the moment based on the information provided by the police is that on Sunday morning several shots were fired in the parking lot of a hotel in Florida and in addition to the rapper, there are four other people who are struck.

The shooting in a parking lot

The 26-year-old rapper, whose legal name was, died Charles Jones. According to the statement from the law firm that represented him, the musician was ambushed in the parking lot of the hotel where he had been forced to move after the authorities had asked him to leave a rented house after he and his its guests had exceeded occupancy limits.

Julio Foolio had described the last few months as “tragic”

It was the rapper himself, in the hours before the events, who published material relating to the celebrations on his Instagram account, writing that the police had intervened to stop the celebrations. Two cars were involved in the shooting. In addition to Julio Foolio, three other people were affected and were promptly taken to hospital, their conditions were described as stable. Foolio was a highly rated rapper, his best-known song Voo Doo largely contributed to him reaching almost a million monthly listeners on Spotify. Last April he published an outburst on social media, writing in a post on Instagram that the last few months had been “tragic”quoting “many attempts on my life”. The police have invited citizens to provide any information that could help them in the investigation, it is thought that his death may be linked in some way to local gang affiliations.