Prosecutors claimed a lady coordinated journey and lodging that laid the groundwork for the calculated ambush that killed Jacksonville rapper Julio Foolio outdoors a Tampa resort throughout his birthday weekend.

Alicia Andrews, 22, sat in a Hillsborough County courtroom as prosecutors detailed her alleged position within the June 2024 killing of Foolio, whose actual title was Charles Jones. According to the state, Andrews helped set the lure that resulted in a barrage of bullets and the rapper’s loss of life.

“She’s sending that on Friday night — ‘Hey, could I book an Airbnb in Tampa?’” prosecutors instructed jurors throughout opening statements. That message, they mentioned, was the primary transfer in a lethal chain of occasions.

Investigators used cellular phone knowledge to trace Andrews and her boyfriend, Isaiah Chance, as they drove roughly 200 miles from Jacksonville to Tampa. “Their cell phones are tracking, hitting towers as they travel in unison all the way down I-75 heading directly into Tampa,” prosecutors mentioned.

Surveillance and cellphone information confirmed Andrews’ gadget leaving the Airbnb hours earlier than the capturing and later pinging close to the Holiday Inn the place Foolio was staying. Four armed males would later open hearth at that location, killing the rapper in what prosecutors known as a meticulously timed assault.

“They moved rapidly into their pre-planned positions, into their firing locations, and then they immediately unleashed a hellish onslaught, a precisely coordinated violence of action, sending a barrage, a wall of hot lead crashing into the only barriers between Charles Jones living and Charles Jones dying,” the prosecution mentioned.

Authorities imagine the killing was tied to a long-running feud between Jacksonville’s ATK and KTA crews. Foolio, linked to KTA, had been concerned in public disputes with rival rappers for years and had beforehand survived a number of makes an attempt on his life.

State Witness 18, whose id is protected for security causes, testified Thursday that she had recognized defendant Alicia Andrews for greater than a decade and as soon as thought of her considered one of her finest associates.

The witness mentioned she spoke with Andrews regularly and was conversant in her relationship with co-defendant Isaiah Chance, whom Andrews had dated for 2 to a few years earlier than the rapper’s 2024 killing. She confirmed Andrews knew Chance was affiliated with Jacksonville’s ATK gang.

Prosecutors introduced textual content messages exchanged between the 2 girls in January 2021, which mentioned the continuing feud between rival Jacksonville gangs tied to slain rapper Julio Foolio, whose actual title was Charles Jones.

The witness mentioned the pair talked about rappers and gang members concerned within the dispute, together with how “people like Jones recruit people willing to die for them.” In those self same messages, Andrews reportedly expressed hostility towards the rapper, writing, “he need to die.”

The testimony connects Andrews to gang-related discussions years earlier than Foolio’s capturing outdoors a Tampa resort in June 2024, a case prosecutors say stemmed from the lethal rivalry between Jacksonville factions ATK and KTA.

Andrews’ protection workforce pushed again on the state’s narrative, arguing that the cellphone knowledge doesn’t show she had any position within the homicide. They mentioned her journey to Tampa was solely to spend time with Chance and had nothing to do with any legal plan.

Andrews is charged with first-degree homicide together with 4 co-defendants: Chance, Sean Gathright, Davion Murphy and Rashad Murphy. She is the primary to face trial within the case.

Foolio’s killing drew widespread consideration throughout Florida’s Hip-Hop scene and added one other chapter to the continuing violence between Jacksonville rap factions. The trial continues this week.

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