Charles Jones – better known as Julio Foolio – has died. He was 26.
The Jacksonville, Florida rapper was shot and killed early Sunday morning in Tampa, Florida, his attorney Lewis Fusco confirmed to NBC News.
Police responded to reports of a shooting at an Uptown Tampa hotel a few hours before sunrise. When they arrived at the scene, they found two vehicles in the parking lot that had been shot at. Jones was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Tampa police. Three other victims are in stable condition and being treated at a local hospital.
Before his death, Jones posted footage to his Instagram story of himself promoting a pool party on Saturday night and asking his one million followers to direct message him the address. Later that night, he posted that police “shut us down and kicked us out of their Airbnb.”
His lawyer then issued a statement saying that Jones had moved to a Holiday Inn after the Airbnb incident. There, in the hotel parking lot, he was allegedly attacked.
“Best birthday ever 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞 thank you to everyone who came. We are so pumped we couldn’t take it anymore,” Jones wrote in an Instagram story just hours before the shooting. “We are going to the show now, come everyone.”
Tampa Police are currently investigating the motive for the shooting and are working to identify the people involved.
Jones, who had nearly a million monthly listeners on Spotify at the time of his death, had been making music since 2015. In April, when he announced the release of his latest album, resurrectionJones posted that he had already survived assassination attempts.
“THE LAST FEW MONTHS/YEARS OF MY LIFE HAVE BEEN TRAGIC,” he wrote on Instagram on April 4. “GOD HAS BEEN TRYING TO SEND ME A MESSAGE. MULTIPLE ATTACKS ON MY KILL. I KEEP SURVIVING… I KEEP LOSING MY BROTHERS IN JAIL AND CEMETERIES BUT I KNOW THE MOST HIGH DOES EVERYTHING FOR A REASON AND LETS ME GO FOR A REASON.”
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