Quando Rondo survived the night that King Von died in 2020,
but he knew that it put a target on his back.
Now he’s in the headlines again after getting shot
at and having two homies killed within 24 hours.
Here’s what’s going down.
On Thursday, August 18th,
news broke that a 22 year old in Savannah
had been shot and killed around midnight.
The cops responded to a report of shots fired on the 800 block
of West 38th Street and found Phoenix Odom dead on the scene.
Odom who was also known as Fendi, was Quando’s homie.
It ain't clear who shot him or why,
but less than a day later
Quando got caught in a shooting
that left another one of his homies dead!
Quando was with his crew at a gas station in Los Angeles
when three dudes pulled up
and started letting off shots.
Early reports said Quando got hit,
but it looks like he actually avoided getting shot.
Unfortunately,
his homie Lul Pap wasn’t as lucky,
and ended up dying from his injuries after getting rushed to the hospital.
When news broke that Quando was shot,
rumors started flying that he ain’t survive the hit.
But a woman who claims to be his aunt
started posting updates on her Instagram stories and said
“I love everyone but please give my family time to call me.
You guys are clogging my line.
We’re fine.
Maybe I should reword it, he’s fine.
I spoke with him myself.”
Then a video of the scene started going around online
that shows Quando screaming
while the cops pull his homie out of the black Escalade they were riding in.
The police say that it looks like a targeted hit.
Lt. John Radke with the LAPD told ABC 7
“We don’t know why or how this happened,
all we know is that the victim vehicle,
they pulled up, they were pumping gas
and it looks like they probably finished pumping gas
and the suspects approached from the alley,
got out of the car and started shooting at those victims.”
The shooters smashed off in a white car,
but nobody knows who was behind the hit yet.
Witnesses on the scene say
that the cops detained at least one person at the gas station,
but Radke told ABC 7
that it may have been someone in Quando’s crew who was just being questioned.
The next day Quando’s team put out a statement that said
“Quando was involved in a shooting yesterday evening [Friday]
which resulted in the untimely death of another’s young man’s life;
he himself didn’t sustain any injuries during the shooting and is safe.”
It’s been a rough week for Quando,
but at least he made it out alive.
Just a few days before all this went down, he tweeted
“Once it happen I ain’t gone be mad
cuz I already been prepared for it really really!”
He’s talked about how Von’s death painted a target on his back before,
and how clubs don’t want to even book him anymore because of the violence.
Last year he told All Around TV
“Nobody want to book me because they’re terrified.
That’s the truth.
So many people calling like,
I wish the fans let that s*** go.
As long as y’all talk about it.
They’re hyping s*** up.”
In the same interview
he talked about all the death threats he got after his boy Lul Tim
allegedly killed Von.
“However some s*** come to me,
that’s how I’m about to go about that s***.
Death threat all you want to, bro,
f*** that s***,
that’s just words, my n****.
Go do an action.”
Back in May 2021,
Quando and his homies were hanging out in a parking lot in Georgia
when someone opened fire on them.
Quando ain’t get hit,
but one of his friends caught a bullet to the hand and was taken to the hospital.
Nobody was ever arrested for the shooting,
but Quando has plenty of enemies who could have done it.
Last month rumors started going around that Quando was in the hospital.
A fake social media post said
“Pray for me, in da hospital fightin for my life.”
Fans were trying to figure out the situation,
but Quando let everyone know the rumors were cap.
He posted a picture of himself sitting in a plane with the caption
“That’s s*** fake ass hell
I don’t even type like that.”
A few weeks before that,
Quando hopped on social media
to brag about the $1 million that NBA YoungBoy gifted him
after he beat his gun case.
Quando and his girl had just split up,
but the M from Youngboy helped him get over it.
He wrote on Instagram
“I give it 2weeks after the break up you gone be getting f*****
but I ain’t tripping I seen it all
LIL TOP JUST GAVE ME A MILLION DOLLARS LAST WEEK
PLUS I ALREADY HAD A COUPLE HUNNIT
I CAN CARE LESS BOUT A B***** I GOT A BAG.”
After Youngboy gave him a million,
Quando hopped on IG Live
and aired out a rapper named Shine Willis
for allegedly stealing $10 bands from him.
According to him,
he was gonna sign Shine to his label
and brought ten racks to give her as a bonus,
but she just snatched it out of his girl’s hands and took off!
Quando went on a massive rant aimed at Shine and said
“Stupid ass b****,
quit actin’ like you took some s*** from me…
You knew what the f*** was goin’ on.
A n**** was tryin’ to sign your stupid ass.”
Quando made it sound like Shine stole money that was already going to be hers,
but she hopped online shared her side of the story.
She claims that Quando disrespected her at a dice game,
and that’s why she took the money.
She wrote on Instagram
“I wasn’t gonna speak on this but y’all got me f***** up
let’s get some facts (straight)
Quando was never gone sign me lol how tf that work?? …
I’m a loyal person I don’t snake nobody
if I ever get outta line
it’s cuz a n**** got outta line first.
Y’all believe a n**** that can’t even remember what happen 20 mins ago
cuz he on Xans.”
Later a phone call leaked
with Quando talking to one of Shine’s homies
and saying that he wasn’t trying to get killed or go to jail over ten racks.
He calmed down later and wrote on Instagram
“I made myself a fool today
arguing with some people who risk they life for money and fame
that s*** crazy.
Clout a hell of a drug
they tryna get where I’m at so I won already!
They literally posting they IG views,
I get that in 5 seconds.
And they screen shot all our messages
just in case so they can run to 12.”
Quando’s had a wild year so far,
but his whole life has been a rollercoaster.
He grew up in Savannah, Georgia
and was raised by his great aunt after his parents lost custody.
They were having an argument
and somehow in the middle of it,
a hot iron fell off a table and landed on Quando’s leg.
CPS got involved after Quando went to the hospital,
and he ended up living with his great aunt -
who he called grandma.
He caught his first charge
when he was just eleven years old
after he hit his cousin and his grandma called the cops.
He was charged with simple battery and put on probation,
but he kept failing drug tests for smoking weed
and ended up going to a detention center.
They let him out after seven days,
but he failed another drug test
and got locked up again for 14 days.
The second time he got released from the detention center,
they put him on house arrest with an ankle monitor.
He tried to sneak out after the monitor’s battery died,
but he got caught and was sentenced to a strict military-style camp.
But they couldn’t control Quando either
and he ended up getting sent back to the detention center
for fighting too much.
He got out of the detention center again
and was still on house arrest for 60 days.
Instead of just waiting it out,
Quando cut off his ankle monitor and went on the run.
He stayed with different friends and family members,
but eventually ended up back at his grandma’s place
and she called the cops on him again.
This time he was booked in the detention center for three months,
but they let him go without an ankle monitor after he served his time.
When he got out this time,
Quando got caught stealing a cap gun with his homies
and was locked up in juvie for four months.
And by the time he got out,
he was like 13 or 14
and ready to dive even deeper into the streets.
He dropped out of school in the 6th grade
and started robbing houses in his neighborhood.
After a while
he wanted to take things to the next level,
so he decided to hit homes in richer neighborhoods instead.
But on his first robbery in a nice area,
he tripped a silent alarm
and ended up getting booked for 15 months in juvie on a burglary charge.
This is when Quando says he really got wild.
After he got out for the burglary charge,
he started gang banging and carrying guns.
He got booked in county jail for gun charges and other crimes,
and it looked like it was only a matter of time
before he’d catch a more serious charge.
After that,
Quando decided to switch up how he was moving and focus on music.
He had been singing and rapping his whole life,
and his track I Remember blew up while he was still in the streets.
After dropping a few more singles and a mixtape,
Quando became the first dude to sign with NBA Youngboy’s
Never Broke Again label in June 2018.
Linking up with Youngboy was huge for his career,
and Quando dropped two more mixtapes and his first album.
It looked like Quando had finally found his way out of the streets,
but then in November 2020
he was involved in the death of one of the hottest rappers in the game.
On November 6th, 2020,
Quando and his crew were outside a nightclub in Atlanta.
Surveillance footage shows King Von
walking up with his homies and start swinging on Quando -
and then a fight breaks out and someone starts letting off shots.
Von got shot and died,
and Quando’s homie Lul Timm
ended up getting arrested for his murder.
It’s still not clear exactly why Von had beef with Quando in the first place,
but it tragically ended with Von being killed
and Quando’s homie booked on a murder charge.
He knew that being involved with Von’s death would cause issues,
and now he’s lost two more homies back-to-back.
At this point there’s no evidence to suggest
the shooting was related to King Von,
but hopefully Quando can move past the situation
and stop losing people to violence.
This story is still developing so tap in for updates.