Gun violence continues to plague the rap community. According to the Miami Herald, Timothy Starks — an aspiring local rapper who goes by Baby Cino — was fatally shot just minutes after walking out of jail.
The 20-year-old Florida native was released from Miami-Dade jail on Wednesday afternoon (March 16) after posting bond on a gun charge. As the red Nissan he was riding in turned onto the Palmetto Expressway, he was ambushed in broad daylight.
Starks was struck in the head, still wearing the wristband given to inmates at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. The driver, 20-year-old Dante Collins Banks, was wounded. Witnesses reported seeing “a dark-colored vehicle” fleeing the area at a high rate of speed,” but detectives have yet to identify any suspects.
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Law enforcement sources suspect the shooting is related to a series of public ambushes in recent months believed to be connected to Miami street gangs, including the January murder of Wavy Navy Pooh, who was fatally shot in his car near Zoo Miami.
Sources told police Starks was associated with a Little Haiti area gang known as “Boss Life.” His main single, “Big Haiti Shottas,” features him and a crew rapping about violence at an apartment building on Northwest Third Avenue and 56th Street.
Starks was arrested in Opa-locka on Tuesday night (March 15) by members of Miami-Dade Police’s Robbery Intervention Detail unit. HipHopDX sends our condolences to Starks’ family.
This site makes me sick. Ya’ll love murder porn. Ya’ll only write stories about dead aspiring rappers, but never write about aspiring rappers still alive.
unfortunately a lot of sites and even the people are like this. doesn’t get much or any attention until they get killed. it’s sickening
Damn, they really wanted him dead. That’s some no mercy gangsta shit. RIP Cino
They report on all of these no name people and put it under violence in rap. Most of these people are the equivalent of local karaoke singers and shit. We don’t need to know about it because they were aspiring rappers. I mean there are people dropping actual albums on major platforms that don’t get ink, but some dude who had some Youtube views in his city gets reported when he gets murked as a rapper on the rise.
@ silent-partner
Because the cocksuckers running these stupid sites have nothing to do with Hip-Hop. Most of them ran by some little inbred racist shit-dwelling white sissyboy phaggot who’s daddy & uncle are the same person. They’re just here push right-wing propaganda in their little comment sections that these opioid-junkie midget white retards buy into.
You need to get laid more black boy. #CalmDownItAintThatSerious
You not wrong, dude has under 200 followers on Spotify and all his songs have under <1000 plays. But it'll still be labeled "another rapper dead"
COol. Go bitch at every other site covering this too. Maybe the point is to send a message. STOP FUCKING KILLING EACH OTHER. It’s out of fucking hand.
People die everyday. Do you care? That doesn’t mean it needs to be under hip hop news. That’s like saying a guy who thought he’d be President one day got killed. Do you think news channels are going to cover it like an actual President died or even mention it for that matter?
Pinche hoodrats
I don’t know who this is to be honest. But it seems like open season on rappers.
*ggas get shot everyday, B.
Saddest part about all this is the fact he had to pull a stunt like this just to get mentioned on a hiphop news site. Nobody has heard about him until he pulled this stunt. Imagine having to die just for 30 secs of fame. very sad.
now dats gangsta
“You’re nobody till somebody kills you”
-Notorious B.I.G-
Navy wavy Pooh shot near the Miami zoo! Fitting.
BARS !!