According to a police report obtained by the Tribune, Cooper, 22, had driven to a gas station on the 4200 block of South Wentworth Avenue around 4 a.m. Sunday with a 29-year-old woman when two other cars — a black Infiniti and a silver Honda — pulled up shortly after he arrived.
Per surveillance footage from the gas station, Cooper and the woman both went inside as two masked occupants in the black Infiniti retrieved items from the silver Honda and returned to their car. The woman and Cooper got back into their car, a white Tesla. The pair from the Infiniti and another four people in the Honda got out and started to shoot at the Tesla.
Surveillance footage captured two of the shooters wearing a green hoodie with a football design on the back and a blue hoodie, according to the report. The others were all wearing black with ski masks, the report stated. Both vehicles were captured on the surveillance footage driving southbound on Wentworth.
Cooper was taken to University of Chicago Medicine with gunshot wounds to the chest and shoulder and was pronounced dead within about a half-hour of the attack, police said. The woman with him was not listed as having been injured, and declined to comment when reached by phone Monday morning.
No one was in custody Monday morning for the shooting. Wentworth Area homicide detectives were investigating.
Chicago police and Cook County court records show Cooper was previously shot in September 2023 in the 4000 block of North Central Park Avenue on the city’s Northwest Side. Responding officers found the injured Cooper in possession of a Glock handgun outfitted with a switch to make it an automatic weapon. Records show Cooper later pleaded guilty to aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and he was sentenced to a year in prison.
Cooper’s music label, AMF Records, shared a Sunday night Instagram post from Signal Records founder Jeffrey Vaughn about Cooper’s death. In that post, Vaughn shared two photos of Cooper and praised his “always improving pen,” intuition around music production and attention to detail with video edits.
“Q50 was unapologetically himself and never afraid to tell his story,” Vaughn wrote. “Those who know know — Q50 was never shy about asking for what he wanted to see out of me and my team. I respected that immensely. I will miss him very much.”
Tribune reporter Finnegan Belleau contributed.
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