Chinx Death: Rapper's Wife Janelli Caceres Speaks out About Husband's Death, Slams Malika Haqq
Janelli Caceres, the wife of the late rapper Lionel "Chinx Drugz" Pickens recently took to Facebook to share her grief over Pickens' recent death, BET reports.
In her Facebook post, which has since been deleted, Caceres writes about how she and her son have been struggling with trying to cope with the late rapper's passing.
Careers' Facebook post reads, "My son is asking for his dad he wants him to come home he keeps asking why did God angels take his dad and when are they bringin' him back. What do I say to him!!!??? To see this sadness in him is killin ... These Devils ruined my family they took a father away from his kids from his son that he loved to death...why??!"
In addition to writing a Facebook post, Janelli also appeared on ABC to discuss Chinx's death and how it has negatively affected her family.
She described Chinx's death as "devastating" and added that "his kids are greatly affected by all of this.
"They don't quite understand but it will hit them soon ... it's very hard. A lot of people don't understand that this was his life, was his family," she continued.
In conjunction with speaking out about her husband's death and their 13-year marriage, Caceres has also created a petition to force media outlet Media TakeOut to take down a report claiming that Malika Haqq, a "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" star and friend to Khloe Kardashian, was Pickens' girlfriend, Bossip reports.
So far, 164 people have signed the petition to have the MTO story removed from the Internet.
Haqq has yet to respond publicly to Caceres' petition, but she has expressed her sadness on Instagram over Picken's death.
There may be more beautiful times but this was ours. Forever a light in my heart. Milk loves you
A photo posted by Malika (@forevermalika) on May 17, 2015 at 5:39pm PDT
Since posting her Instagram tribute to Pickens, social media users and former "Love and Hip Hop" star Erica Mena have slammed Haqq for not respecting Pickens' marriage to Caceres, according to Bossip.
Lionel "Chinx" Pickens, who is a father of three kids and a Coke Boyz rapper, was shot dead in a drive-by shooting that happened early Sunday morning around 4 a.m. ET in Queens, New York.
At the time of the shooting, Pickens was in the passenger seat of a Porsche and was shot several times. The driver, who is an unidentified 27-year-old man, was hit twice in the back and remains in critical but stable condition in Jamaica Hospital.
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