Standing on the Gold Coast block where her son was slain days ago, the mother of Chicago rapper FBG Duck pleaded Friday that there be no retaliation from members of his gang, as police fear.
“Anything that happens this weekend, they will not blame it on my son,” LaSheena Weekly told the Tribune. “Because as his mother, I’m asking for peace, I want justice for my son, not retaliation.”
As she spoke, she held up a picture of her son, whose real name was Carlton Weekly, and a platinum album commemorating more than 50 million video streams for his song “Slide.”
Weekly, 26, was shot Tuesday afternoon while standing in line in front of one of the high-end retailers that line the first block of East Oak Street, according to police. Two cars, a dark Ford Fusion and a gray Chrysler 300, pulled up and four gunmen jumped out and opened fire about 4:30 p.m., police said.
Weekly was shot more than a dozen times, according to a police report. His girlfriend, who told police she was waiting in a parked car, was shot twice in the left wrist. A 36-year-old man was hit in the back and leg.
Chicago police say Weekly may have been targeted because he had recently made a video featuring “derogatory statements” about rival gang members who have died.
Weekly was a member of a Gangster Disciples faction that has been involved in a fierce feud with the Black Disciples on the South Side, according to police.
Officers in at least four police districts — Wentworth, Grand Crossing, Gresham and Englewood — have been warned to use “extreme caution” because of the “high probability of further violence,” according to an advisory issued by the department.
“Intelligence suggests that both these gangs are in possession of large caliber and high capacity firearms,” it adds.
Three years ago, Weekly’s older brother Jermaine Robinson was shot and killed in a double homicide in Woodlawn on the South Side, according to police and Weekly’s Apple Music biography. Robinson was also a rapper who performed under the name FBG Brick.