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In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2023
Friends and household are mourning the nonaccomplishment of rapper MoneySign Suede.
The California native, born Jaime Brugada Valdez, was killed at the Correctional Training Facility successful Soledad connected April 25, according to a property merchandise issued by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He was 22 years old.
Correctional Training Facility (CTF) officials are investigating his decease arsenic a homicide.
Suede's attorney, Nicholas Rosenberg, told NBC News that the musician was stabbed successful the cervix successful a shower.
"There's an investigation, but astatine this constituent the motive remains unknown," Rosenberg told NBC News connected April 27. "Suede was a precise fashionable guy, precise mild-mannered. Everybody loved him."
According to the CDCR, a hunt for Suede was launched aft helium was unaccounted for during a regular organization count. Correctional officers recovered him unresponsive successful different country of the lodging portion with "injuries accordant with a homicide."
"Staff rapidly initiated life-saving measures and summoned exigency services to transport Brugada to an on-site aesculapian installation for treatment," the merchandise explained, adding helium was "pronounced deceased astatine 10:00 p.m."
He had been serving a two-year and eight-month condemnation for possession/owning firearm by felon oregon addict arsenic a second-striker and a one-year, fourth-month condemnation for possession/owning firearm with condemnation of a convulsive felony (to beryllium served concurrently), according to the CDCR.
Suede, who began rapping astatine the property of 16, dropped his breakthrough song, "Back to the Bag," successful 2020. Shortly earlier his conviction, helium opened up astir the travel down his euphony career.
"After I dropped my archetypal song, it conscionable felt good," helium said during a September 2022 interrogation with Tapped In. "It conscionable kept maine motivated, I conscionable kept wanting to get that feeling."
His decease comes astir 1 period aft helium released the video to his latest single, "Lost Hope."
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