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CHICAGO (AP) — Police are taking steps to stave off retaliatory attacks after a Chicago rapper known for taunting rivals on social media was shot in the head in a shootout during a funeral for another area rapper killed earlier in October.
A Chicago Police Department spokesman said Tuesday police are monitoring threats of retaliation posted on social media sites after 21-year-old rapper Marvel "FBG Wooski" Williams was shot. He also said officers also planned to hold community meetings to ease tension.
Five others were injured in the Monday afternoon shooting on the South Side, though none as seriously as Williams. He was in critical condition Monday going into surgery. But his condition was later upgraded to stable but serious.
Williams was a friend of the rapper whose funeral was being held in a church next to where the shooting occurred.
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