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Rapper Foogiano is currently facing charges for knowingly possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon following the mass shooting that occurred at Lavish Lounge July of 2020. While he wasn’t the one who pulled the trigger, he legally shouldn’t have had a gun. Ten people were shot that night with 2 that died, Mykala Bell, 23 and Clarence Sterling Johnson, 51.
Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis said it all started when one of Foogiano, whose real name’s Kwame Khalil Brown’s entourage member Jarquez Kezavion Cooper flashed a gang sign at the crowd. Lewis said that’s when the shooting started. Cooper then fired into the crowd from the stage. “He pulls his shirt up, pulls a pistol out, presents it and people kinda start to separate and get away from the original altercation and he begins to fire,” Lewis said. Cooper has since been charged with two counts of murder, seven counts of attempted murder, and one count of possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.
Authorities believe others in Foogiano’s camp were responsible for the shooting. It was 40 of them that came in through the back of the club that night. Over the summer Foogiano was seen on the phone from prison saying he wasn’t going to serve the expected 5 years he was going to get. Now we’re going to have to see. If you ask our opinion, everyone should have the right to protect themselves, felon or not so the fact he’s been charged when he committed no crime is absurd.
