The life of controversial rapper XXXTentacion came to a blunt and violent end on June 18,
when he was gunned down during an apparent robbery in Deerfield Beach, Florida, and pronounced
dead not two hours later.
As soon as videos from the scene of the crime emerged, showing his body slumped and lifeless,
speculation about who killed him began.
A month to the day after his murder, a grand jury indicted four suspects.
Here, according to court documents, is how police identified them.
Suspect: Dedrick Devonshay Williams
The first of the suspects brought in by police, Williams, 22, was arrested just two days after
XXXTentacion's murder.
Per the affidavit for his warrant, surveillance footage from the motorcycle dealership the
rapper visited just before his death showed a man wearing a white tank top and bright
orange sandals.
Footage showed that man leaving the store to enter the vehicle that would eventually
block XXXTentacion's path as he left the store, allowing his killers to trap him, the affidavit
says.
The affidavit explains that surveillance cameras captured the man in orange sandals making
a purchase, which receipts showed was a black neoprene mask.
According to an eyewitness, the gunmen who approached XXX during the robbery wore masks,
one black, the other red.
Per the warrant, when still photos from the store's surveillance that day were distributed
to local police, one officer said he believed the manwas Williams.
Police also tracked down an Instagram account, the affidavit says, under the handle 'tattoomanchucky'
that featured photos of Williams
Photos on that Instagram account showed Williams wearing orange sandals just like those spotted
on the man in the surveillance footage.
Per the warrant, two employees from the store who saw the man purchase the mask positively
identified Williams in a six-picture photographic array.
Police pulled him over on June 20, charging him with first-degree murder.
Williams was also charged with a probation violation and operating a vehicle without
a valid license.
Suspect: Michael Boatwright
The next of the four suspects charged was 22-year-old Michael Boatwright, who police
say was the one who shot and killed X. Boatwright was arrested on July 5 on an unrelated drug
charge, then served with an arrest warrant for first-degree murder while in jail on July
10.
The affidavit for his arrest warrant, as reported by outlets like CNN, sheds more light on what
police say happened on the day XXXTentacion was murdered.
According to CNN, the affidavit says that the rapper withdrew $50,000 in cash—all
in $100 bills—on the day he was killed.
Per his arrest warrant, police found cellphone photos of Boatwright from hours after the
murder holding $100 bills.
They also found searches on his phone for 'Onfroy'—XXXTentacion's last name—and
'accessory to murder,' along with masks similar to the one purchased at the motorcycle store
and bullets similar to those used in the crime in a relative's vehicle.
According to The Blast, legal documents have Williams' girlfriend telling police that her
boyfriend revealed that he was with the people who killed XXXTentacion.
The girlfriend identified the killers as 'Boatwright' and 'Tray.'
The warrant also connected Boatwright to the killing via a Dodge Journey similar to the
one seen in surveillance footage.
The person who rented the car, according to the warrant, said she was with Boatwright
when she did so.
Police found his fingerprints in the car after it was involved in a hit-and-run hours after
the murder.
Suspect: Robert Allen
The latest suspect arrested is 22-year-old Robert Allen, who authorities apprehended
in Eastman, Georgia, on Wednesday.
According to the 'Miami Herald,' a U.S. Marshals Service task force got information that he
was in the area, staying with his sister.
Allen was previously named as a 'person of interest' in the case by police, having been
seen in surveillance footage at the motorcycle dealership the rapper was murdered outside
of.
Allen, now facing charges of first-degree murder and armed robbery, was already wanted
on a felony warrant for a probation violation for possession of PVP and carrying a concealed
firearm.
The 'Miami Herald' reports that an arrest warrant put Allen with Boatwright and Tony
Robinson, a friend of Williams, when the aforementioned Dodge Journey was rented.
Robinson, according to the description of the warrant in the 'Miami Herald,' told investigators
that she let Allen have the car and got a call the next day—June 18, the same day
X was killed—that it had been wrecked.
According to The Blast, legal documents say police interviewed Williams, the first suspect
arrested, who initially denied being at the motorcycle store on June 18.
He changed his story several times during the interview, at one point saying he did
visit the store with a friend, 'Fat Boy,' presumed to be the 300-pound Allen.
In addition to the aforementioned charges, Allen's rap sheet includes 21 counts of fraud
from 2016.
On Wednesday August 1, Allen pled not guilty.
Suspect: Trayvon Newsome
The last of the suspects, and the only one still at large at the time of writing, is
20-year-old Trayvon Newsome, who the two-count grand jury indictment names as one of the
two armed assailants who approached XXXTentacion in his car as he left the motorcycle shop.
While the indictment does say that Newsome—the only suspect without prior criminal convictions—was
armed during the incident, it names Boatwright as the actual triggerman.
The Blast reports that, in an interview with police, suspect Dedrick Williams' girlfriend
said that he named 'Boatwright' and 'Tray' as the two people who murdered the rapper.
Police identified Newsome as the driver of a Dodge Journey—similar to the one seen
in surveillance footage blocking XXXTentacion's car before the murder—involved in the hit-and-run
hours after the murder, according to CNN's report on the affidavit for Boatwright's arrest
warrant.
According to the 'Miami Herald,' the warrant says that Williams' friend Tony Robinson (who
originally rented the Dodge Journey) received a call about Newsome wrecking the car.
The warrant also describes cellphone photos of Boatwright and Newsome toting 'a large
amount of $100 bills.'
As in his tumultuous life, XXXTentacion has in death drawn a captive audience.
His following, which has been described as cult-like, has from the moment of his murder
spun theories about who did it and why, and watched for breaks in the case.
The audience includes Florida detectives who watched surveillance footage and pieced together
a picture of what unfolded on the day of his death.
And they're all waiting with baited breath to see how this story concludes.
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