Texas rapper G$ Lil Ronnie, 5-year-old daughter killed in shooting at car wash: Reports
Texas rapper G$ Lil Ronnie, 5-year-old daughter killed in shooting at car wash: Reports
A shooting at a northern Texas car wash Monday killed a 5-year-old girl and a 30-year-old man who was reportedly local rapper G$ Lil Ronnie.
Police said two suspects opened fire at the victims shortly before 11 a.m. local time in Forest Hill, a suburb about 30 miles west of Dallas. Officers performed life-saving measures but both victims were pronounced dead at the scene.
A preliminary investigation found that the suspects fled the scene in a white four-door Kia after approaching the victim's vehicle, according to the Forest Hill Police Department. There is an active capital murder warrant issued for the arrests of the suspects, whose names have not been shared yet.
A witness at the scene said they heard around 20 to 30 gunshots, local station KTVT reported.
The shooting marks the fourth and fifth homicides in Forest Hill this year compared to none in 2024, the police department said.
Aunt said Smith had no known enemies: Report
Friends and family have identified the man killed as rapper Ronnie "LilRonnie" Smith, also known as G$ Lil Ronnie, according to local stations WFAA and KTVT.
Smith's aunt, Stella Houston, said her nephew had no known enemies that she knew of, WFAA reported.
"He was a good kid. He was," Houston told WFAA. "He didn't bother noody."
Smith had around 40,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. His highest streaming track was "Hoodfame Killuminati," off a 2018 collaborative project with Go Yayo, whose real name is Kyrin Xavier Peters.
Peters posted a photo of the two on his Instagram story Monday and wrote "Life or death 4 u big brudda."
The Forest Hill Police Department is urging anyone with information on the shooting or the suspect's whereabouts to call 817-531-5250 or email policeinvestigations@foresthilltx.org.
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