A man stands with police under flashing lights and says the words that hit hard:
“I’m gonna cry right now.”
The officer answers without hesitation. There’s no judgment if he needs to cry. The short exchange, captured on what appears to be police bodycam or scene footage, has been circulating widely after Daily Loud shared it on X on November 9, 2026. The clip shows a close friend or associate of Jacksonville rapper Julio Foolio learning the rapper is dead and struggling to keep it together.
The moment feels raw. Gestures, voice cracking under pressure, police lights cutting through the night. It lands as a personal reminder of the human cost behind a high-profile case that has already played out in court.
Julio Foolio was the stage name of Charles Andrew Jones II, a 26-year-old drill rapper from Jacksonville’s Moncrief neighborhood. Born June 21, 1998, he built a following with music that often referenced street life, losses, and rivalries. He was linked by authorities to the 6 Block group.
On the early morning of June 23, 2024, Foolio was in Tampa celebrating his birthday. After an Airbnb gathering was shut down for overcrowding, the group ended up in the parking lot of a Home2 Suites hotel near the University of South Florida area. Three armed men approached his Dodge Charger and opened fire in what police described as a targeted ambush. Foolio was hit multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene. Three others were wounded.
Authorities tied the shooting to a long-running Jacksonville rivalry involving 6 Block, ATK, and 1200. Investigators said the attackers tracked the group using social media posts and followed them that night.
The investigation produced arrests and trials. In 2026, Isaiah Chance, Sean Gathright, Rashad Murphy, and Davion Murphy were convicted of first-degree murder and related charges. All four received life sentences without the possibility of parole. Alicia Andrews was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years.
Evidence presented at trial included hotel and street surveillance, cell data, ballistics, and witness statements. The convictions closed the main chapter of the criminal case more than two years after the shooting.
It is worth keeping this footage distinct from later trial testimony. Survivor Geno Norris, who was wounded in the Charger, gave emotional accounts in court about waking to gunfire, seeing Foolio “laid out,” and the chaos that followed. That testimony is a different record from the newly circulating scene video. The man in the bodycam-style clip has not been reliably identified in the available material as Norris or any other named individual, and his reaction should not be read as evidence of involvement in the crime.
The footage does what good human-interest reporting often does: it shows the immediate weight of a death on someone close to the person who died. Two years after the ambush and months after the life sentences, the clip still carries that weight.
