Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine at a presentation in Milan, Italy.
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MIAMI – Police arrested three people in connection with the beating of 26-year-old New York rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine in the bathrooms of a South Florida gym, where about two weeks ago he was ejected from a World Baseball Classic game.
Local media reported this Friday of the arrest by the Police of three individuals, identified thanks to the dissemination of a video on social networks in which it is observed how Daniel Hernández, the artist’s real name, is violently beaten to the ground.
The police arrested three men identified as Rafael Medina (43 years old), Octavious Medina (23) and Anthony Maldonado (25), who face charges of assault and robbery.
the suspects are being held today at a Palm Beach County Jail.in southeast Florida.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the incident took place on the night of the 21st at the LA Fitness gym, located in the town of Lake Worth.
Some media pointed out that the attack could be related to the artist’s alleged enmity with members of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods gang.
The rapper’s lawyer, Lance Lazzaro, told TMZ about the incident that several men attacked his client while he was inside the gym premises and that the artist could not defend himself.
The rapper, who he was taken to a hospital by ambulance with cuts, a jaw injury and blows to the ribs and back, he showed through social networks how his face was left by the beating.
This incident adds to another occurred recently during the World Baseball Classic game between Mexico and Puerto Rico, from which he was expelled for blocking the vision of other viewers, according to some media allegedly altered by alcohol intake.
The artist made headlines last February after a person impersonated him, which caused a human stampede in front of the Havana hotel where he was staying, as confirmed by the Cuban Ministry of Tourism (Mintur), which clarified that the events that occurred were not linked to the artist.
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