After police linked the deaths of two 13-year-old boys to a Lil Baby music video shoot last year, the rapper and his attorneys have responded.
In a post shared on his Instagram Stories, Lil Baby dismissed the connection and thanked his fans for their support. “Thanks for all the concerns, please don’t be misinformed by fake news!!” he wrote. “I’m overly good.”
On Wednesday, Feb. 26, the Atlanta Police Department held a news conference to announce the arrests of seven individuals in connection with the deaths of two 13-year-old boys, Jakody Davis and Lamon Freeman. The two were killed at a birthday party in July 2024, and police indicated that Lil Baby’s music video shoot two months prior was connected to their deaths. The rapper’s attorneys called the accusations “complete and total nonsense.”
“To say that he couldn’t shoot a music video in his hometown, a place that he loves and has continued to uplift, is disgraceful,” Lil Baby’s attorneys, Drew Findling and Marissa Goldberg, told TMZ. “Even more, the location for a major music video shoot is a decision made by a professional team and is not a decision made by any individual.” They added that he had “absolutely no involvement” in the shooting, and accused the police department of being “unprofessional, unethical, and shameful.”
While the police did not name Lil Baby in the press conference, the arrest warrants for the seven individuals mentioned the music video Lil Baby shot in northwest Atlanta in May 2024. The shooting of the two teens was allegedly a retaliation from a rival gang to a shooting that took place during the music video shoot.
“Lamont Friedman was allowed to be a 13-year-old for 27 minutes before gang violence ultimately took his life. Gang violence that was orchestrated by adults,” said Major Ralph Woolfolk during the press conference. “Cowardly acts of an Atlanta-based rapper that decided to go over into a rival gang stronghold and shoot a music video in a place that he knew he should not have been. In the subsequent days, we saw homicides and shootings and, ultimately, the deaths of two children as a result of his cowardly actions and you know who you are.”
Police vowed to hold Lil Baby and those affiliated with the music video shoot responsible.
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