Money Mitch was a rising rapper from South Florida who was recently killed after a shootout with police.
Now, the cops are saying that the rapper ran away, then took his own life,
but fans aren’t so sure about that. Let’s take a closer look at what happened.
Money Mitch was a 23-year-old from Riviera Beach Florida known for tracks like RIP Cool
and Charged Up featuring Spottem Gottem. Even though Mitch wasn’t that big of an artist yet,
he already had tons of relationships with high-profile rappers from Lil Baby to 42 Dugg.
Mitch grew up on 35th Street in Riviera Beach and got sucked into the streets from a young age.
His arrest record shows that he caught his first felony charge at just 18 for marijuana possession.
Later that same year, police raided his house and found a Glock 17,
bagged up weed and a scale. For that, he got hit with a bunch of different charges, including
intent to sell within 1000 feet of a place of worship, because his house was close to a church.
The year after that, the cops tried to pull over a vehicle he was driving for a tinted
window violation and he refused to stop. He was still fighting the other case
and didn’t want to get in more trouble, so he ended up leading them on a 15-mile-high speed chase.
While in pursuit, the police learned that Mitch and his passenger were thought to be connected
to the death of 15-year-old Makayla Dennard. Mitch ended up speeding at over 120 miles per hour
and hit two other vehicles in the chase. Once they were finally caught,
police learned that they were not involved with the homicide.
But Mitch was still charged with aggravated fleeing, resisting an officer, and moving violations.
The year after that, in June 2018, Mitch was shot on the 1200 block
of West 35th Street, along with three other people.
A 19-year-old named Timothy Fredericks was killed and six people were later taken into custody.
Money Mitch had been building a buzz for his music and was well respected by his peers.
After his death, Lil Baby went on social media to mourn his friend,
posting a story to his Instagram with the caption “Bra I’m sorry I couldn’t save you” and
“Damn Mitch you was On me Every Day”.How Money Mitch knew the hottest rapper in the game is unclear.
Even though he had a buzz in South Florida, he didn’t have a huge following yet
but clearly had some major connections. Lil Baby’s post is what attracted the
attention of the mainstream and had fans questioning how the rapper was really killed.
The cops had been watching Mitch because of he was allegedly the suspect in a murder investigation.
On July 23rd, 2021 they were trailing a red vehicle in Lake Park, which turned out to be an
Uber with Mitch inside it. They tried to pull him over because they also had probable cause
to arrest him for drug possession. The car did pull over, but Mitch hopped out of the vehicle
and started letting off shots, then ran away. So, the police started firing back and chased after him.
He ended up ducking into an apartment complex and going up to a unit on the third floor.
As police entered the building, they noticed blood on the first floor and assumed that he had been shot.
When they got upstairs, they found Mitch dead with a Glock in between his legs.
At first, it was assumed that Mitch had been killed by police.
But just recently, the Palm Beach County Sheriffs gave a press conference
where they claimed that Mitch had actually died from suicide.
When we got up there, he had committed suicide
They say that when they returned fire,
they had not hit him and the gunshot was self-inflicted. They released a photo of the
glock semi-automatic with an extended clip that he had used to fire at them and take his own life.
Fans were skeptical of this claim because police had said that they noticed blood
when they were entering the building. Even if he did shoot himself upstairs,
they must have already injured him for there to be blood on the first floor.
We followed him up to a building and on the second floor, we noticed some blood droppings on the first floor
It doesn’t prove that they killed him, but it does prove that some of the official facts don’t add up.
If that wasn’t bad enough, Mitch’s blood brother Trile
had also been shot and killed just a week before. Only four days before Mitch died,
Trile was found by police in a parked car suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
The police were called to the 1600 block of Avenue South after getting a report of gunshots in the area.
When they discovered Trile, they brought him to the hospital, but he later died from his injuries.
Two days after that, there was a double shooting not far from where Trile and Money Mitch lived.
This was the homicide that led police to start tracking Mitch,
and they believe that it was payback for his brother’s death. The identity of the other victim
hasn’t been revealed, but police have stated that they believe it’s connected to Trile’s murder.
The whole story seems pretty wild. The fact that Mitch was in an Uber
when the cops pulled him over and he just hopped out shooting
sounds like something out of a movie. But maybe if he felt cornered then he thought
he had no choice because they were going to get him for murder and drug charges.
It’s tough to know what really happened. Maybe Mitch felt like he had nowhere else to turn
and took his own life. Or maybe the police actually shot him and don’t want to face the consequences.
But if he did fire at them first and he happened to get hit after they fired back,
why would they cover it up. Unless the version of events that they are telling the media is all untrue.
They did say that they didn’t hit him when they fired back, but there was blood on the first floor.
But, if he had shot himself downstairs, how did he make it to the second floor?
Unless the gun went off accidentally and he crawled upstairs to avoid the police.
The whole story doesn’t add up and it makes sense why fans are confused about what really happened.
But it seems like the world may never know what truly happened to Money Mitch
because for now, the police have ruled it as a suicide.
Money Mitch’s family has disputed what the Sheriff’s Office has said and claim that he was
murdered by the police. They say that the shooting would have looked bad for their department,
so they made it look like a suicide to avoid the negative publicity. The family did admit
that he may have been involved in a shootout, but he was not the one who took his own life.
It’s tragic that Money Mitch never got to realize his true potential.
Even though he had only had around 15,000 followers at the time of his death,
he was already being mentored by one of the biggest rappers in the game. Plus, he had racked
up over 200,000 views on the track Charged Up, which featured a guest appearance from another
popular Florida rapper Spottem Gottem. He had a good flow and seemed to know how to network,
so there’s no telling how far he could have made it in the industry if he was able to keep grinding.
But unfortunately, he is another talented rapper gone too soon. He didn’t even have the chance to
truly mourn his brother’s death before he would lose his own life. If it’s true that he was on the
run from the cops because he killed the dudes that murked his brother, it’s tragic.
But it’s also hard to blame him. Just a few years before losing his brother, his father would also die from gun violence
and he was probably in a pretty bad state already, after losing someone so close to him.
At least Money Mitch made an impact on his city and the people he was around. The world may never
know what actually happened to the rapper, but at least his memory will live on through his music.
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