Was XXXTentacion’s murder a random robbery?

Florida police are no closer to solving the murder of Florida rapper XXTentacion who was fatally shot on Monday afternoon local time.

According to his lawyer, David Bogenschutz, police told him they were working on the assumption that his violent death was caused by a random act of robbery and not from beefs that he had.

One assumption is that XXTentacion was seen withdrawing money at a bank for a deposit before going to upmarket Riva Motorsports in Deerfield Beach to look at buying a motorbike.

The 20-year-old was known to be splashing his money around after the chart-topping success of his ? album.

 He had just bought a new $1.4 million home in the suburb of Parkland, and was driving a luxury BMW electric car.

He was driving the BMW out of the store’s car park when shot.

Police are looking for two black males in hoodies, with the shooter wearing a red mask.

They fled the scene in a dark-coloured SUV after allegedly taking a Louis Vuitton bag.

In other updates:

• Fans reacting to police descriptions of the shooters collared rappers Soldier Kidd and Soldier Jojo. Both have denied it.
  
• The family immediately had a six-foot wall outside his house as fans descended with candles, cards and gifts.

• Thousands gathered at the murder site in Broward County, Florida, and a second memorial was held on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles.

• Grieving fans claim that police were called when they disrupted traffic and posted videos of rubber bullets being used on them.

• Fans became confused when a video when viral with the rapper claiming he was “not really dead”. It transpired that he had made it in 2017.

• Nielsen Music reported that XXXTentacion music sales increased by 1603% in the US and his ? album is expected to return to the Top 10.

• Kanye West tweeted a photo of the rapper with the caption: “rest in peace. I never told you how much you inspired me when you were here. thank you for existing.”

Diplo revealed that he had invited XXXTentacion to come to Los Angeles this weekend to record together.

“This kid was a genius true artist. He made his own rules.

“He has his faults but he was young and he worked so hard on his own self. He wanted to be better […]

“He texted me this weekend it was one of his goals to get me and Skrillex to finish his next album.

“I Invited him to LA this week. I was wondering if he was gonna come […] He was gonna do so much more he promised me.”

XXXTentacion’s ex-girlfriend Geneva Ayala, who charged him with assaulting her when she was pregnant, was inconsolable.

In October 2016 she started a GoFundMe crowd-funding campaign to raise of $25,000 for surgery. She detailed two fractures in her left eye socket as well as nose and jaw fractures, “due to an aggressive hit”.

She explained, “Since these bones are fractured they’re piercing into the back of my eyeball causing damage to an optical nerve and my eye itself.”

Without surgery, she said, her “eyeball will die” and the nerve connecting her lip/cheek and teeth “will eventually die as well.”

Since his death, fans raised an extra $6,000 for her, bringing the total to $34,249.