- Following an early-morning shooting at a Tampa Holiday Inn, police discovered that Foolio—real name: Charles Jones—and three other individuals had sustained gunshot wounds, according to NBC News.
- The other three individuals were rushed to the hospital to receive medical attention for their injuries, and Jones was declared dead on the spot.
- Jones, who has one million Instagram followers, had mentioned in multiple posts that he would be having a party on Saturday night and that attendees should send him a private message to get the address.
- He shared on Instagram a few hours after the party started, showing that the guests had been ejected from their Airbnb.
- His lawyer informed News4Jax that after arriving at the hotel, he was “basically ambushed” in the parking lot.
- According to the local TV station, Jones regularly rapped about rival gang murders in Jacksonville. In April, he stated that he had escaped “multiple attempts” on his life.
- thirty-one million. As of Sunday, it was the number of times Foolio’s most streamed song on Spotify, “Voo Doo.” On the streaming site, he had about a million monthly listeners, while tracks like “Dead Opps Pt. 2” and “Play With Me” got between 13 and 17 million plays, respectively.
- According to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which at least four people—not including the shooter—are hurt or killed, the Tampa shooting was one of six mass shootings that were reported on Saturday and Sunday in the United States. A shooting in Kentucky on Saturday left seven people injured and one dead, while a shooting in Mississippi the same day left six people shot and one dead. In Columbus, Ohio, ten people were shot and hurt on Sunday, and authorities are still looking for the culprit. On Sunday morning, a shooting occurred in downtown St. Louis that left one person dead and five others injured. Six people, including two minors, were shot in a park near Rochester, New York.
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forbes
