Update: Tampa, Florida police announced 3 arrests in the ambush shooting death of Jacksonville rapper Julio Foolio last month.
The arrests were announced during a brief news conference in Tampa on Monday.
Isaiah Chance Jr., 21, Alicia Andrews, 21, and Sean Gathright, 18, are in custody. Police are also searching for 2 other suspects in the shooting.
“Today’s announcement would not be possible without the outstanding investigative work of our homicide detectives and with the assistance of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and the ATF,” said Tampa Police Chief Lee Bercaw.
Chief Bercaw said the suspects took extreme measures to cover their actions, “But they were no match for our investigators.”
Foolio, real name Charles Jones, was fatally shot in the parking lot of a Holiday Inn in north Tampa on June 23. Foolio was celebrating his 26th birthday when he died.
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Police believe Foolio was there to get a room at the hotel after getting kicked out of an Airbnb earlier in the day.
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Foolio advertised a pool party at an Airbnb in a post on his Instagram Story that day. He told followers to DM him for the address.
Foolio went viral last Oct. when a gruesome photo of his foot injury circulated on social media after he was shot in an ambush in Jacksonville.
In the photo caption, he quoted lyrics from Ksoo’s track “Been Dead“: “All this money on my head I ‘posed to been dead. All this money on my head I ‘posed to been dead.”
The press conference will be streamed live in this post.
