TAMPA, Fla. — Jury selection will begin in Hillsborough County court Monday for the first trial related to the 2024 murder of Jacksonville rapper Charles Jones, also known as Foolio.
Alicia Andrews is the first of five suspects to stand trial in the case. She is accused of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in Jones’s death.
Jones was killed when he was ambushed and gunned down at a Tampa Holiday Inn. He was a well-known, prominent member of the Jacksonville gang 6Block. Several of the defendants are documented members or “associates” of rival gangs often linked to each other, ATK and 1200. State attorneys have called the ambush a premeditated murder stemming from an “ongoing gang war.”…