At least one rapper was killed due to shooting every year as the hip-hop community, which often glorifies violence through music, has been closely associated with images of gun crime.
- Nov 6, 2022
AceShowbiz - While other rappers were murdered by criminals, Johnny May Cash was shot and killed by his own girlfriend. Several days after news broke about the Chicago rapper's shocking death, it's revealed that it was his own girlfriend Brianna Gibbs who pulled the trigger.
Brianna, who was charged with first-degree murder, admitted to shooting Johnny after an altercation took place on April 17 in Gresham. She told detectives that he got violent with her, allegedly hitting her and pulling a chunk of her hair out before she shot him.
According to legal docs, police responded to a Shotspotter alert at a location near the 8400 block of South Aberdeen Street around 2:20 A.M. and discovered four spent 9-mm shell casings. Neither Johnny, who's the younger brother of Young Chop, a rapper and producer known for his work with Chief Keef, nor his girlfriend was still on the scene when police arrived. Authorities later found out that Johnny had been driven to Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Chicago by a friend where he was admitted with a gunshot wound to the thigh. The rapper later succumbed to his injury.
