South Florida rapper XXXTentacion was leaving a motorcycle dealership when an SUV blocked his sports car and two masked gunmen jumped out and fired multiple times, killing him, according to court documents released Friday.
Alleged SUV driver Dedrick Devonshay Williams, 22, was taken into custody Wednesday while driving outside of his Pompano Beach home.
Though detectives don’t believe Williams shot at XXXTentacion, his active role during the homicide led to him being arrested on a premeditated murder charge, an arrest warrant said.
There are multiple suspects in the case and they were at large Friday night, a law enforcement source said.
Surveillance video from outside RIVA Motorsports as well as from inside the business, at 3671 N. Dixie Highway, Deerfield Beach, recorded how two men entered the dealership as XXXTentacion shopped. It also recorded when he was ambushed while leaving the parking lot.
XXXTentacion had brought a friend along with him to browse at the store where he was a regular customer. What happened to his passenger, and why the rapper was targeted, were not described in the documents.
David Bogenschutz, the attorney for the young performer and songwriter, previously told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that detectives were initially investigating the killing that began as a random robbery.
He said it was believed that his client had gone to a bank before traveling to RIVA Motorsports. Bogenschutz had also urged XXXTentacion to become more aware of his personal security.
XXXTentacion, 20, of Parkland whose given name is Jahseh Onfroy, drove his BMW to the motorcycle dealer at about 3:30 p.m. Monday. Two minutes later, a dark-colored SUV arrived and parked in the dealer’s lot.
Two men got out of the SUV — one wearing a white tank top and bright orange sandals, and another wearing a dark T-shirt — and entered the store. The man in the white tank, later identified as Williams, paid cash for a black neoprene mask, and the men left the store, an arrest warrant said.
They returned to the SUV, and backed it into a homeowner’s driveway opposite the dealership’s north gate.
At 3:55 p.m., XXXTentacion’s BMW left through the north gate, the SUV pulled in front of it. An eyewitness told detectives two armed men dressed in dark clothing and gloves — and one wearing a red mask, the other in a black mask — approached the rapper while he was in the driver’s seat.
There was a brief struggle, the masked men reached inside the BMW, took a small bag and XXXTentacion was shot multiple times.
Broward Sheriff’s deputies identified Williams, who had posed in photographs on Facebook and Instagram while wearing the same bright orange sandals, or footwear that was very similar, the arrest warrant said. Witnesses also identified him.
Williams is in the main Broward County jail in Fort Lauderdale, being held without bond. Paramedics took XXXTentacion to Broward Health North in Deerfield Beach, where he died shortly after he was shot.
