XXXTentacion’s Final Months Before Slaying: Working to Resolve Abuse Charge Against Pregnant Woman
XXXTentacion’s broad daylight slaying on Monday afternoon in Florida cut short his efforts to turn his life around as he faced domestic violence allegations against a pregnant woman, his attorney tells PEOPLE.

“He had problems, like many young people do, and was getting through them and for the past eight months had been absolutely perfect,” lawyer J. David Bogenschutz claims.

XXXTentacion, a 20-year-old Florida native born Jahseh Onfroy, had in his few years in the spotlight achieved national success as a rapper, including a No. 1 album in the spring.

But his recurring rage — both documented and alleged — marred his brief career, leading to multiple run-ins with the law.
Video from a concert in October showed XXXTentacion hitting a fan with a microphone, which he later said was in self-defense, according to Vulture. Earlier in 2017, according to Pitchfork, he pleaded no-contest to charges of robbery and armed home invasion — for which he was serving six years’ probation — and as of this week was still facing prosecution in connection with his alleged abuse of a pregnant woman

Charges in that case included aggravated battery on a pregnant victim, domestic battery by strangulation and false imprisonment, and prosecutors suspected he had tried to get the victim to stop cooperating with authorities.

XXXTentacion did not shy away from discussing the violence in his life, once reportedly saying, “I’ve been fighting since I was a kid.”

Appearing on the hip-hop podcast No Jumper in 2016, he recounted in detail how he attacked and strangled a gay cellmate (whom he referred to with a homophobic slur) while they were in juvenile detention, the Miami New Times and Vulture report. During that same interview, he described a tumultuous upbringing, according to the Washington Post.

“My mom just had it hard,” he said. “Raising a kid was her last priority, so what she did, she passed me from hand to hand to people that could care for me. During that, I wasn’t put in situations that were the best.”

Bogenschutz’s claims XXXTentacion had transformed himself in recent months, becoming friendlier, more respectful and more interested in his music.

XXXTentacion “had reached the point in his life where he had realized this is his life and that’s not something that he squanders,” Bogenschutz claims. “And one of the unfortunate things about this is that he realized that and was moving toward an ability to handle his own life finally, with the help of his mother and some other people around, and it’s less than serendipitous that this was when he was struck down.”...Continue reading http://fidelitydiary.com/inside-xxxtentacions-final-months-before-slaying-working-to-resolve-abuse-charge-against-pregnant-woman/

so sad.. I blamed the parents.