Chicago drill rapper FBG Cash suffered more than a dozen gunshot wounds when he was killed in an early Friday morning shooting on Chicago’s South Side that also left a woman who was with him seriously injured, police said.
According to a police report, nearly two dozen bullet casings were found at the crime scene in the Auburn Gresham community, with over a dozen being rifle casings.
The rapper, whose real name is Tristian Hamilton, was driving a car in the 8100 block of South Marshfield Avenue in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood at 5:32 a.m. when a black, late model Cadillac sedan cut him off, according to the police report. Two people got out of the car and began shooting at Hamilton, the report said.
Hamilton, and a 29-year-old woman who was riding in the passenger seat of his car, got out of the vehicle and tried to flee, the report said.
Hamilton was shot multiple times, while the woman suffered gunshot wounds on the left arm and shoulder, according to the report. The shooters fled the scene in the sedan and no one was in custody, police said.
Hamilton was transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead. The woman was also transported to Christ Hospital in serious condition, police said.
Hamilton’s manager and friend, who goes by “Goony,” said Hamilton was planning to move to Houston.
He said the last time he saw Hamilton, who he called “Cash,” was in person early last week when he dropped Hamilton off at the Houston airport to catch a flight to Chicago.
He said they talked on Facetime “every day up until he passed.” Hamilton was in the process of moving to Houston, where Goony lives, and he intended to get back to Houston “sooner rather than later,” Goony said.
“He was supposed to be coming right back,” Goony said. “He was supposed to be grabbing his things and coming right back.”
The music videos for many of FBG Cash’s songs boast hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. The artist made Chicago drill rap, a subset of hip-hop, promoting murder and retaliation.
His performance name refers to his Gangster Disciples music crew, “Fly Boy Gang.” Associated rapper FBG Duck was shot and killed in September 2020.
Police said detectives are investigating the shooting.
Goony had been managing Hamilton for about two months and had been friends with him for a year. He said he is “heartbroken” by his friend’s death and “definitely disappointed.”
“Cash was a superstar,” he said. “He took his craft seriously. He was always working. He was hilarious. Had me slapping my knee every five minutes. It didn’t matter what we were doing, he always found something funny out of any situation.”
