While leaving Chicago’s Cook County Jail after his release this past Saturday evening, police said rapper KTS Dre was met with assailants from two different vehicles who shot at him, fatally striking him with up to 64 bullets, WGN 9 reported.
The 31-year-old hip-hop artist known for his Chicago drill music was transported to Mount Sinai Hospital for his multiple gunshot wounds but was ultimately pronounced dead after arriving.
According to the WGN 9, a police report stated that multiple shooters “exited two separate vehicles and all began to shoot in Sylvester’s direction, striking him numerous times.”
KTS Dre, born Londre Sylvester, reportedly posted $5,000 in bail the day before the shooting, leading to his release.
Londre Sylvester, who performed as KTS Dre and Kutthroat Dreko, was standing with a 60-year-old woman Saturday night when a car pulled up and two gunmen fired off dozens of shots. https://t.co/WWyWTKHilF
— Chicago Sun-Times (@Suntimes) July 13, 2021
An unnamed woman who was also at the jail at the time of Saturday’s shooting told the Chicago Sun-Times about hearing the numerous gunshots, “We were talking from car to car, and I looked at her and said, ‘Those sounded really close. Moments later, I heard two pops in front of the visiting area, then more in a cadence that couldn’t be anything but gunshots.”
“When the shooting stopped, a Cook Country [sheriff’s officer] said to me, ‘Young lady, I think you better move your car,’ and at first I laughed it off because I didn’t believe him, but he was serious and told me those were gunshots,” she continued. “I can’t stop thinking to myself that had I not stopped to talk to my friend. I could have been in that area when they were shooting. I was supposed to be over there.”
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KTS Dre was reportedly walking outside of the jail towards a car when the shooting began. Police said two other women were also hit by the gunfire, including a 60-year-old woman accompanying the Chicago rapper. She was transported to a nearby hospital for a bullet wound to her knee. A second woman was grazed by a bullet.
The suspects are still at large.
