Baby Cino, an aspiring rapper, was shot and killed just hours after being released from a Miami prison. However, it appeared that he had already prophesied his demise.
Last Wednesday, the rapper, whose actual name is Timothy Starks, was riding in his red Nissan when he was ambushed by a shooter in another automobile.
When the gunfire rang out on Palmetto Expressway, Cino was driving the car.
Dante Collins Banks, a 20-year-old passenger, said he went to pick up Cino from jail and was in the car with him when he was shot in the abdomen.
The rapper was pronounced dead at the scene after being shot in the head. At the same moment, his friend was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he is now in stable condition.
Although no suspect has been identified, the Miami Herald reports that "a dark-colored vehicle was spotted exiting the area at a high rate of speed."
Baby Cino was only recognized as the victim of the incident on Friday.
The singer was released on bond from the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center at 2 p.m. on Wednesday.
Baby Cino's death follows the release of his last hit tune, "Big Haiti Shottas," in which he rapped about shooting and bloodshed.
The lyrics said, "Spot 'em, I got 'em, If it's an issue or a problem, we'll pull up with them choppers, we'll leave him dead on the scene, hell na he ain't making it to the doctor."
It went on to read, "Watch his body fall like autumn. Yellow tape then helicopters, screaming there go his mom. Oh ma, that's what you get when you playin' 'round with them Big Haiti shottas"
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Authorities say the shooter fired at least 40 shots at Baby Cino's automobile, bringing his lyrics back to haunt him.
Baby Cino was detained in Opa-Locka, Florida, just before the incident, on Tuesday night for having an obscured tag.
When the officers stopped him, he was moving "as if he was concealing an object corresponding with the shape of a handgun," according to the arrest report.
During a search of the vehicle, officers discovered a fully loaded Glock 32 revolver.
Police are apparently looking into a string of public ambushes that have occurred in recent months and are considered to be linked to Miami street gangs.
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