Rapper Foolio was engaged in at least three gunshots before his tragic death on his 26th birthday.
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The Jacksonville-based hitmaker, known as Julio Foolio but born Charles Jones, was pronounced dead at the scene early Sunday morning, June 23.
Three additional persons were hurt in the event and transported to nearby hospitals. It was not the List of Dead Opps hitmaker’s first encounter with death. In July 2020, he was shot in Houston, Texas.
He ended himself in the hospital and posted a live video from his bed, telling supporters, “An ******* shot me, but didn’t kill me.”
Just a year later, in 2021, the star was hurt after exiting his automobile in Jacksonville, Florida.
He said he was “grazed in the leg” at the moment and stated, “I shot back in self-defense.” My gun is registered. “If I did something illegal, the police would arrest me.”
Foolio claimed that he was shot “100 times” during the 2021 event. Police said Foolio reported many gunfire in the vicinity, telling officers that he took two of his own pistols and returned fire on the perpetrators, who were driving a “dark-colored truck or SUV.”
In October 2023, Foolio was shot again, suffering a major bullet wound and shattering many bones in his left foot. He was targeted by assailants in Florida.
Sadly, Fookio was killed on June 23, 2024, after being fatally shot at his birthday celebration.
Also, in February 2019, Foolio’s little brother Adrian Dennard Gainer Jr, who went by the name Bibby, was shot and killed at the age of just 16 at an apartment complex in the Moncrief area.
Bibby’s mum Elizabeth Gainer told an assembled crowd after his death: “I am going to rock the hell out of Duval County for my baby. Whoever had anything to do with this shooting, you hurt the wrong baby. He was loved and he loved us. He had a mother and a father, grandparents, aunts. He was no thug and he is no gangster!”
Now Foolio’s girlfriend has paid tribute to him amid his own tragic death, writing online: “Y’all took my boyfriend from me. I hate y’all & I won’t be the only one crying [broken heart emoji].”
One police officer on the scene told WFLA Now: “What we have learned […] is that two cars were shot at, four people were shot in total as a result of this. Three of them were transported to hospitals and one was pronounced deceased here on the scene.
“We are working to learn what led up to the shooting, motive… As far as the people who are at local hospitals, we are working to get an update on their condition.”