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After pleading guilty to murdering Chinx in 2015, Quincy Homere was sentenced to 23 years in prison. As per Fox News, the sentencing took place in a Queens court on Monday, August 12, 2024. After the sentencing, Queens District Attorney, Melinda Katz issued a statement and said:
“Quincy Homere was sentenced today to 23 years in prison for killing Lionel Pickens Jr., a successful rapper, husband and father who was mercilessly gunned down in 2015. Homere fired numerous rounds into Pickens’ car while he was stopped at a red light in Briarwood and then fled, leaving the young man for dead."
She continued:
"Nothing can undo what happened, but I hope today’s sentence brings some solace to Pickens’ loved ones as they continue to grieve.”
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Furthermore, the sentencing took place after Quincy pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree manslaughter, on July 17, 2024. During the hearing, Quincy stated that he was fueled to kill Chinx due to their feud that took place in 2014, where both Homere and the rapper indulged in a physical fight.
For the unversed, rapper Chinx AKA Lionel Du Fon Pickens was killed on May 17, 2015, while he was in his silver Porsche on Queens Boulevard. As per the Washington Post, the incident took place when another car pulled up on the side of the rapper’s car, and Quincy from inside the car shot him multiple times. Pickens was then rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
“I don’t believe there’s words that can express the way I feel about what transpired here” -Quincy Homere speaks in court as he is sentenced in the killing of rapper Chinx
As Quincy was sentenced to 23 years in prison for killing Pickens in 2015, he said in court how he is apologetic for the incident, as she stated:
“I’d like to express my condolences to the family and anyone else that was affected by what happened here. I don’t believe there’s words that can express the way I feel about what transpired here.”
On the other hand, after Quincy was sentenced, the deceased rapper’s widow, Janelli Caceres also spoke up and stated:
“I was told I had two minutes to say goodbye, holding his mother’s hand, watching his lifeless body praying and crying for him to wake up. A mother has to bury her son. At the age of 28 I became a widow. My children, who were 15, 11 and 4, are now without a dad.”
Furthermore, it is also worth noting that as Chinx was killed while returning from an event in 2015, no arrests were made until 2017.
At the time, police arrested Homere and Hill as suspects, and a year later, both the suspects were charged with one count each of second-degree murder, second-degree attempted murder, and first-degree assault, along with multiple counts of criminal possession of a deadly weapon.
