C Glizzy, a rising hip hop MC and a friend of the late XXXTentacion, has been shot in the head in Florida but is expected to survive, according to local news reports.
Glizzy, whose real name is Christian Moore, was identified by a reporter for TV station WLPG Local 10 as the victim of the shooting in Pompano Beach, Florida, outside a convenience store.
Family members identify the teenager shot in the head in Pompano Beach yesterday as Christian Moore, an up-and-coming rapper known as CGlizzy. He underwent surgery for his injuries at Broward Health North. pic.twitter.com/NiU8EZF38k
— Madeleine Wright (@MWrightWPLG) June 16, 2019
He was then taken to a local hospital, where doctors removed a bullet from his head. Later, reporter Madeleine Wright said that Moore’s mother had told her: “He is heavily sedated and not talking right now, but she is expecting and hoping that he’ll survive the gunshot wound he sustained to the head.”
Doctors removed a bullet from the head of 16-year-old rapper CGlizzy during surgery at Broward Health North, according to his mother. @browardsheriff is searching for the assailant. CGlizzy was friends with XXXTentacion, who was fatally shot during an armed robbery last year. pic.twitter.com/efFIUK4yWn
— Madeleine Wright (@MWrightWPLG) June 16, 2019
UPDATE: @CGlizzyofficial’s mom tells me he is heavily sedated and not talking right now, but she is expecting and hoping that he’ll survive the gunshot wound he sustained to the head. Someone opened fire on him as he was leaving a store on MLK Blvd. in Pompano Beach yesterday. pic.twitter.com/BKXhFMslaz
— Madeleine Wright (@MWrightWPLG) June 16, 2019
The news came almost exactly a year since XXXTentacion was fatally shot in Miami. The rapper, whose real name was Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, was shot and killed at a motorcycle dealership in Broward County, Florida on June 18, 2018. He was 20 years old.
Four men were later arrested in connection with his murder, and police said that his killers were ‘tracking’ him, releasing surveillance footage in September.
He has since made a number of posthumous musical appearance, with ‘Skins’, his third studio album, arriving back in December and hitting the number one spot in the US charts. It was followed by a mixtape ‘Members Only, Vol. 4’ in January.