Jacksonville rapper Foolio, whose real name is Charles Jones, was shot and killed Sunday morning in Tampa, his attorney confirmed.
Police were called to a hotel in uptown Tampa a few hours before sunrise and received reports of a shooting at the address. When they arrived at the scene, they found two vehicles that had been shot in the parking lot.
One person, now identified as Jones, was pronounced dead, according to the Tampa Police Department. Three other victims are in stable condition and being treated in hospital.
Police said officers are still investigating the motive for the shooting and working to identify those involved.
Jones was celebrating his birthday the night of the fatal shooting, according to images he posted to his Instagram Story. The 26-year-old rapper, who had 1 million followers on the platform, shared a video announcing a pool party on Saturday night. He told his followers to send him a direct message asking for his address.
Later that night, he posted that the police “shut us down and kicked us out” of the Airbnb.
His attorney Lewis Fusco wrote in a statement that Jones then moved to a Holiday Inn, where he was allegedly ambushed in the parking lot.
“Best birthday ever Thank you to everyone who stopped, we showed up until we couldn’t anymore,” Jones wrote in another Instagram story just hours before the shooting. “We owe it to the show now, you guys are moving up.”
In April, when announcing the release of his latest album, “Resurrection,” Jones also posted that he had already survived “MULTIPLE ATTEMPTS IN MY LIFE”.
Jones, who had nearly 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify at the time of filming, had been making music since 2015.
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