The woman who was in the passenger seat of Chicago drill rapper BloodHound Q50’s Tesla when he was fatally shot has publicly identified herself in viral footage and denied online speculation that she set him up.
In a Facebook post shared Monday, the woman wrote that she was the person seen exiting the car and running as gunfire erupted. “I am the girl that was in the passenger seat yall don’t know what the fuck happened i didnt set shit up,” she said. She described warning the rapper to hurry after noticing suspicious men near the vehicle while he was inside a store, adding that the car would not shift into drive because of a seat-belt safety feature.
“When he got in the car I told him to hurry up and pull off because when he was in the store dudes were walking around the car looking suspicious the car would not put off because of thr seat belt while he was trying to get the car in drive i was looking out the back window and seen them running up after soon as I seen them and heard shots i got out fast as I could and ran screaming for help,”
the post continued.
“That was my homie my lover and my unborn baby father put some fuckin respect on me and his life.”
No Jumper and other outlets circulated screenshots of the statement. The woman, described in police reports as a 29-year-old companion, later posted a video addressing critics and told Fox 32 Chicago she has left Illinois.
Mikquale Cooper, the 22-year-old known as BloodHound Q50, was killed early Sunday, September 13, 2026, in an ambush at the BP gas station at 4248 S. Wentworth Avenue in Chicago’s Fuller Park neighborhood. According to a Chicago police report obtained by the Chicago Tribune, Cooper and the woman arrived in a white 2019 Tesla around 4 a.m. Both went inside the convenience store as two other vehicles — a black Infiniti and a silver Honda — pulled into the lot.
Surveillance footage showed masked occupants retrieving items from one of the cars. When Cooper returned to the driver’s seat and the woman to the passenger side, approximately six gunmen exited the vehicles and opened fire on the Tesla. Cooper was struck in the chest and shoulder. He was taken to University of Chicago Medicine and pronounced dead about 4:35 a.m. A firearm was recovered from his vehicle. The attackers fled southbound toward the Dan Ryan Expressway. No arrests have been announced.
Witnesses reported hearing dozens of rounds, with some accounts placing the number above 50. Nearby Subway restaurant windows were damaged by gunfire. The woman was not injured. One account given to the Chicago Sun-Times indicated that before the shooting, men approached the car and told her it would be her man’s last night alive.
Cooper had built a rising profile in Chicago’s drill scene after starting to pursue music seriously around 2023. His releases included the 2025 project “Long Live My Brudda He Prolly Kilt Yo Brudda” and the more recent “Get Back Or Die Trying.” He collaborated with artists including VonOff1700 and EST Gee and had drawn more than a million monthly Spotify listeners. In a recent interview with DJ Akademiks, he acknowledged the risks of his lifestyle, saying he was not chasing death but was not running from it either.
His mother, Machetta Dudley, posted emotional messages on Facebook after the shooting, defending her son’s memory and warning online critics. Chicago police continue to investigate the homicide. The woman’s account of the Tesla’s seat-belt interlock preventing an immediate escape has circulated widely alongside the surveillance videos of the attack.
