Rapper to survive after shot in attack
Houston rapper Cashout Ace was among nine people shot, two fatally, during his music video shoot Friday night at an industrial warehouse north of Houston, according to a family member.
The 20-year-old rapper, whose real name is Miguel Guajardo, is currently in stable condition at a local hospital after being shot in the arm and near his eye, his mother Eliza Guajardo said Sunday.
She said her son had been pursuing rap as a career in Houston for the last year and a half, and she didn’t know whether or why he might have been targeted. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office had not publicly identified a motive or possible suspects Sunday.
“He was just trying to release videos because he was doing really good as an upcoming rapper,” Eliza Guajardo told the Houston Chronicle. “His dream was to
make it in that field … we don’t know if there were other people who didn’t want him to be successful or who had any animosity.”
The sheriff’s office said the group was ambushed in the parking lot of the industrial warehouse, about a quarter-mile east of Interstate 45 between West Little York and West Gulf Bank roads.
The shooting killed Gonzalo Gonzalez, 20, and Jonathan Jimenez, 22. Gonzalez was hired to film the video and did not know Gaujardo personally, according to his mother Gloria Gonzalez.
In a statement, Gloria described her son as a University of Houston student who had a passion and gift for photography and videography. He most recently lived in the Summerwood area in northeast Harris County, she said.
“All who knew him would agree that he was a great young man that had so much to offer to this world,” Gloria Gonzalez said. “Gonzalo was a true blessing in everyone’s life and will be greatly missed.”
Eliza Guajardo said she didn’t know any details about the video shoot, including how many people were on the scene. She hasn’t been able to speak to her son since the attack, she said.
She said one of the shooting victims, Abel Pesina, is Guajardo’s brother. Pesina is also expected to be OK, she said.
“We have a large family and friends network, so we’re all here with them (at the hospital),” she said.
She said her son’s friends were among the other wounded victims, identified as Jordan Diaz, 17; Jorge Gonzalez, 19; Moses Alvarez, 21; Miguel Martinez, 21, and Fabian Garza, 22.
“He was just trying to release videos because he was doing really good as an upcoming rapper. His dream was to make it in that field.”
Eliza Guajardo, mother of shooting victim Miguel Guajardo aka Cashout Ace