Janelli Caceres-Pickens, the widow of Chinx, was finally able to look at the men who allegedly killed her husband. Following the arrests of Jamar Hill and Quincy Homere, Caceres-Pickens spoke to reporters about this difficult moment in her life.
“It was hard,” she said when asked about seeing the alleged attackers. “It’s hard to sit there and see the person that’s responsible for this and not be able to say anything, not be able to give any emotion. There’s so many things you wanna say. You wanna act out, you wanna be angry, but you can’t. I just pray that this goes quickly, and they get what they deserve.”
Hill and Homere face charges of second-degree murder, second-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon for the 2015 shooting of Chinx.
(The original version of this article was published on December 14, 2017 and can found below.)
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Two arrests have been made in the 2015 shooting death of New York City rapper Chinx, according to PIX 11 News. Long Island residents Jamar Hill, 26, and Quincy Homere, 32, both face charges of second-degree murder, second-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
Hot 97 personality Lisa Evers shared a video of a suspect being taken into custody on Thursday (December 14).
NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said he believes the two suspects followed Chinx and a friend from a Brooklyn nightclub into Queens on May 17, 2015. While Chinx and his passenger were stopped at a stoplight on Main Street and Queens Boulevard, Hill and Homere pulled up in their vehicle and allegedly opened fire into Chinx’s Porsche.
The 31-year-old Coke Boy affiliate suffered multiple gunshots wounds and was pronounced dead at the hospital. His friend was injured but survived.
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Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said the killing was “another example of mindless gun violence plaguing our country” and described Chinx as “a young, up-and-coming musician” who “had his life and career dramatically cut short by a burst of senseless shooting … Such violence has no place in a civilized society.”
If convicted, Homere and Hill face up to life in prison.
Chinx was working on his debut album, Welcome To JFK, at the time of his death but it was released posthumously. A second posthumous project, Legends Never Die, was released in 2016.
