Police: Rapper likely victim of random robbery
Two suspects sought in death of Xxxtentacion
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — The lawyer for slain rapper Xxxtentacion said Tuesday that detectives believe he was fatally shot in a random robbery while likely planning to buy a motorcycle at an upscale shop near a residential neighborhood in South Florida.
Attorney David Bogenschutz said investigators also told him the 20-yearold rapper, who pronounced his stage name “Ex Ex Ex ten-ta-see-yawn,” had visited a bank shortly before the shooting and possibly withdrew cash for the purchase.
No arrests have been made in Monday’s shooting at Riva Motorsports in Deerfield Beach.
Xxxtentacion, whose real name was Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, was exiting the shop’s parking lot in his luxury BMW electric car when he was shot. The Broward Sheriff ’s Office says deputies are searching for two suspects who fled in a dark SUV.
On Tuesday morning, workers continued building a 6-foot wall around the property of the newly built home where Xxxtentacion lived in Parkland, the same suburb of Fort Lauderdale where a gunman fatally shot 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February.
Candles, a teddy bear and a large, signed sympathy card lined the front porch of the 5,957-square-foot home, which was purchased late last year for $1.4 million.
Riva Motorsports is an upscale seller of motorcycles, boats, all-terrain vehicles and scooters off a main highway, next to railroad tracks and a neighborhood of tract homes.
On Tuesday afternoon a steady stream of fans had placed candles, flowers and teddy bears on the sidewalk near where he was shot, and decorated 100 yards of sidewalk with chalk art including messages of sympathy and loss such as “Feel for you XXX” and “4evr Young.”