East Flatbush rapper Nick Blixky shot to death
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BY TODD MAISEL
Up-and-coming rapper
Nick Blixky was shot to
death on May 10 in Prospect
Lefferts Gardens, police
said. He was 21.
Cops from the 71st Precinct
found the young rapper,
whose real name is
Nickalus Thompson, unconscious
and unresponsive
with multiple gunshot
wounds to the chest
and buttocks on Winthrop
Street by Rogers Avenue
at about 9:30 pm, authorities
said.
First responders
rushed Thompson to Kings
County Hospital, where he
was pronounced dead on
arrival, offi cials said.
Investigators found
seven spent shell casings
on the ground where
Thompson was killed.
The crime scene was still
marked off on Monday
morning, and police were
searching nearby security
camera footage to try
to fi nd the killer.
Thompson, a Jamaican
American rapper
from East Flatbush, was
about to debut a catalog of
new music entitled, “Different
Timin,” to be released
on June 3.
Thompson has released
singles called
“Drive the Boat,” and
“Change Gears,” in which
he raps about life on the
city streets and his relationships.
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