Lil Tjay has not been arrested for a previous gun charge despite earlier reports suggesting otherwise, said the rapper’s longtime lawyer, who also represented 6ix9ine and Remy Ma.
It all started on Friday (May 5), when the NY Drill Official Instagram page made the claim that the “Gangsta Boo” rapper had been arrested after he’d turned himself in for an outstanding warrant.
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Not long after the page dropped the story, Lil Tjay’s longtime lawyer, Dawn Florio, reached out to the site and clarified the situation.
“This arrest is not a new gun charge,” she said. “He had to turn himself in for the case where he was a victim where he was shot multiple times. The allegation is that there were guns in the car.”
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— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) May 6, 2023
The rumors first began swirling because Lil Tjay’s mugshot — which was taken in Bergen County, NJ — began circulating on the Internet, thus prompting speculation that he’d been tossed in the slammer.
But this isn’t the first time that Dawn Florio has had to speak out in defense of her most recent famous client.
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Back in January, Florio claimed Lil Tjay was merely a passenger in the car that was pulled over and it was parked legally on the street.
The 21-year-old was en route to shoot a music video with Ice Spice for their “Gangsta Boo” collaboration in New York City when he was arrested.
Florio added that once police stopped the vehicle, they did not offer a credible reason as to why they carried out a search and the gun they discovered does not belong to her client. She also believes the NYPD targeted the Bronx rapper after he posted about the video shoot on social media.
The arrest came months after Lil Tjay suffered multiple gunshot wounds during a shooting in front of a Chipotle in Edgewater, New Jersey, in June 2022.
The “Calling My Phone” hitmaker was rushed into emergency surgery, where he was reported to have been unconscious and breathing through a tube for a few days.
Luckily, Tjay was able to make a full recovery and took to social media last August to say that while things were “tough,” he would come back and be “stronger than ever.”
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“Hey what’s going on y’all?” he said in a video while wearing a neck brace. “I’m just checking in with y’all. I just wanna say, thanks for the love, thanks for the support. I’ve been looking at the DM’s, seeing the comments and everything else and I feel love.”
