Orlando rapper 9lokkNine arrested
Feuds between the Orlando rapper 9lokkNine and local rivals have been linked to a pair of July shootings, one of which police say the rapper participated in personally and another in which a known associate was fatally wounded by members of a rival gang, court records say.
Jacquavius Dennard Smith, whose stage name is pronounced “Glock Nine,” was arrested last week on five counts of attempted second-degree murder with a firearm, one count of shooting into an occupied dwelling and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Police released few details of what prompted his arrest, but court records in his case and others indicate an ongoing rivalry between gang-linked Central Florida rappers has been tied to escalating violence.
The fatal shooting happened July 7, during an afternoon exchange of gunfire on Powers Ridge Court in Orange County.
Deputies arrived to find Jeremiah Robinson, described as an associate of Smith’s, in the passenger seat of a Dodge Challenger with a gunshot to his head. He was taken by ambulance to Orlando Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead five days later.
Detective Joshua Miller wrote in his report that Robinson and the Challenger’s driver, Jermaine Monterriel Ingram Jr., both of whom are linked to a gang known as
All Family No Friends, had driven to Powers Ridge Court because a member of a rival gang, the 438 Gang, lived on that street.
That led to the shootout — in which Ingram and Robinson’s alleged target returned fire with an assault rifle, deputies said.
Ingram, 23, was jailed in Orange County Wednesday on a charge of second-degree felony murder. He is being held without bail.
Though authorities say he and Robinson were on the same side of the shootout, Miller determined they had gone to Powers Ridge Court to commit a violent felony, which under Florida law allows Ingram to be charged with murder for his accomplice’s death.
According to Miller’s report, the All Family No Friends gang is associated with Smith, while the 438 Gang is associated with another rapper.
Months earlier, another Smith associate, Demetrius Cox Jr., was accused of shooting and killing a man April 20 at a party in Osceola County. Another fatal shooting happened at a party on the day of that man’s funeral, in which Robinson was the suspected gunman, Miller wrote.
The shooting that resulted in Smith’s arrest happened July 23 at a house on Bleasdale Avenue in Orlando. A witness said armed men arrived in two cars and shot up the front of the home. A mother and her four children were inside, none of whom were injured, police said.
Witnesses told Detective Travis Ring that the likely target of the shooting was Smith’s cousin, who lives at the house but was not there at the time. The cousin is also a rapper.
One witness told Ring that Smith is “jealous” of his cousin’s attention from “celebrities” who shared his content online. That had led to an ongoing feud between the two, the witness said. The witness, whose name was redacted from court records, identified Smith as one of the gunmen.
At an initial appearance hearing after his arrest in the shooting, a judge revoked Smith’s bond for an earlier arrest on drugand ammunition-possession charges, forcing him to remain in jail.
But at a hearing Tuesday, Circuit Judge Gail A. Adams granted Smith’s release on the condition that he not possess or have access to firearms. Court minutes noted that Adams’ decision came over “strenuous objection” from prosecutors for the Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office.