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Case Description

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In the early morning hours of May 17, 2015, Lionel Pickens, a 31-year-old rapper from Queens, New York, known professionally as Chinx, was killed in a drive-by shooting. The male musician was driving his Porsche through his home borough after a performance at a club in Brooklyn. At approximately 4 a.m., while stopped at a red light at the intersection of Queens Boulevard and 84th Drive in the Briarwood neighborhood, another vehicle pulled up alongside his car. An assailant fired multiple shots i ...Read More

Victim Details

Lionel Chinx Pickens

Male

Black / African American

Queens

NY

2015-05-17

31

Lionel

Chinx Pickens

04/29/2026