His murder is the 25th homicide this year in Hartford
Teenage rapper YNT Juan was fatally shot over the weekend in Hartford, Connecticut.
The 17-year-old artist, born Juan Bautista Garcia, was shot dead in a parked car at 258 Martin St. just after 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, police officials confirmed to NBC Connecticut and Fox 61.
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The rapper had over 25,000 Instagram followers and recently promoted his new remix to Kanye West’s “Power,” which was shared with his 4,000 YouTube subscribers on Aug. 3.
“He was only 17-years-old,” a childhood friend of Garcia told HipHopDX. “He never went live on his Instagram to talk about drama, he only went on there to support his friends or promote his music. [He] didn’t even get to graduate school yet.”
Hartford Police major crime and crime scene divisions are investigating the circumstances surrounding his death.
YNT Juan’s murder is the 25th homicide this year in Hartford. He is among the unsettling list of rappers who have been killed following Chicago rapper King Von’s murder in Nov. 2020.
Last month, Zerail Dijon Rivera, a rapper in the Los Angeles area, was talking with a friend on Instagram Live when he was ambushed in front of viewers and his murder broadcast over the social media network.https://www.youtube.com/embed/kSrkz_pROco?feature=oembed
Rivera, who performed under the name Indian Red Boy, was killed late July in Hawthorne, theGRIO reported. In a press release, the Hawthorne Police Department said they responded to a shooting call at a multi-level gated apartment complex on South Chadron Avenue to find “a 21-year-old male slumped in the front seat of a vehicle parked in the carport to the rear of the building.”
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