After one individual was killed and one other wounded in a taking pictures throughout the road from a video shoot by Sexyy Purple and Sukihana, the “Pound City” rapper launched an announcement on her Instagram Tales on Thursday evening (Sept. 14) clarifying that the violence was unrelated to her challenge whereas sending her ideas to the sufferer’s household.
“I ship my condolences to the household of the person who misplaced his life and prayers up for the one that was wounded,” Purple (born Janae Wherry) wrote in her Story. “However i gotta deal with the rumors that it occurred at my video shoot bc s–t just isn’t true, in any respect. To be clear it occurred at a gasoline station throughout the road from my video set.”
Purple mentioned that each the Florida Freeway Patrol and Broward County Sheriff’s workplace “confirmed that the taking pictures wasn’t on my set.” She additionally assured followers that she was safe, “because of my manufacturing workforce getting all of the paperwork proper and dealing with the Broward Sheriff’s Workplace to rent off-duty’s to ensure everybody was secure.”
Purple added that the shoot was accomplished at a unique location and that everybody concerned was in a position to go house safely afterwards. “Interval. I’m simply making an attempt to work laborious, make good music, join with my followers,” she wrote. “Please don’t attempt to twist narratives and put this on a b–ch.”
In an announcement to Billboard on Friday morning (Sept. 15), the Broward County Sheriff’s workplace confirmed that their officers responded to a taking pictures name at 7:54 p.m. in Oakland Park, the place deputies discovered “two people affected by obvious gunshot wounds.” The Sheriff’s workplace assertion famous that one unnamed sufferer was pronounced useless on the scene and one other transported to an area hospital and that the taking pictures befell “close to” the spot the place the video was being filmed and “detectives are working to substantiate if the 2 are associated.”
At press time, a spokesperson for Purple had not returned Billboard‘s request for touch upon the incident and it was not clear if any arrests had been made.
This week the preliminary TikTok Billboard Prime 50 chart — dated Sept. 16 — featured Purple’s rising hit “SkeeYee” because the tally’s first No. 1; the track additionally got here in at No. 67 on the Billboard Scorching 100 dated Sept. 16. Sexyy and Sukihana dropped the video for his or her “Hood Rats” collaboration final month. It was unclear at press time what video the 2 have been taking pictures throughout on Thursday.
