stephen, what do you say? absolutely not. okay. wow. let's see. we've got, like, 20s left for education. no, you have a right to go and do what you're supposed to do to get good grades. okay? so that's what you're supposed to do. and maybe if i got paid when i was younger, i would have better grades. no. well, you did all right, gentlemen, this has been so fun. this is really fun. we can talk about this stuff for hours before we go. and we do have to. i would love it if you guys sent a like it or not question. so we could use it here on the show. just record yourself asking the question. you might see it here. thank you for joining u for li >> i'm anna garcia right now on a special edition of true crime news. he was a rising hip hop star from philadelphia who performed with ed sheeran and chance the rapper, until the artist known as pnb rock was gunned down while eating lunch

with his fiancee. a true crime news exclusive. never before seen surveillance video of the crime as it unfolded. the father and son suspects trying to cover their tracks. was it pre-planned or a robbery gone wrong? i sit down with the lead prosecutor to get exclusive new details. >> he sets it on fire blocks away from his residence and walks back home. >> what? pnb rock's fiancee, the mother of his daughter, told police after he was murdered right in front of her. >> he was our head. >> and there's finally justice for pnb rock. your daily source for true crime starts right now. hi everyone. thanks for joining us. rakeem allen, better known as rapper pnb rock, a hip hop artist from philadelphia, was shot and killed while having lunch with his fiancee here in los angeles. today. true crime news has exclusive, never before

seen videos and interviews that shed new light on what really happened that day. a camera lens is trained on a restaurant parking lot and also inside this footage recording in real time, a major heist and murder about to go down. a spontaneous stop at an iconic los angeles restaurant collides with gold, greed and bullets ending in carnage. and one of the east coast rising rap stars lying in a pool of blood. >> he was a guest in our community and was gunned down, gunned down by a cowardly act, he was pnb rock, a philadelphia rapper with a loyal following and a taste for extravagance.

>> the last time i turn around, i hit him one down. his real name was rakim allen, but he fashioned his stage name after the streets where he grew up. >> pnb rock was paying homage to his neighborhood, and pastorius and baynton was the areas of the streets in which he lived on. so he came up with the name pnb rock, featured in major music magazines like rolling stone's ten new artists you need to know and double xxl's freshman class of 2017. as an artist, he straddled the fence between r&b and rap. and that's something that a lot of people couldn't do. >> r&b historian tyrone dubois says pnb was a master at meshing music genres. how significant was it that he came from the philadelphia area? >> pnb rock success was based upon the one thing that very few people are able to do rise from the ashes and make the

negativity in his life turn into something positive. >> his own story was tightly linked to the energy of the streets, where he learned about violence early on. >> his father passed away based on a gang war. >> his older brother was murdered, so he himself experienced death at an early age. >> pnb rock posted about his brother's death on x, sharing it ain't right, but he pushed past the grief and pain through music. >> we are what we are. he started off selling out of his trunk and then becoming noticed and observed. >> pnb landed a record deal and launched hit songs like issues. i ain't got some issues, i know that i can't hide, which showcases his love of expensive jewelry. as the money poured in, the rapper often showed off the rewards by posting to social media, mostly highlighting his love for expensive jewelry.

>> and on top. >> yeah, a love that would ultimately cost him his life. >> that thursday. >> not for bragging, but for, you know, celebrating yourself, celebrating your wealth, celebrating the success that you've made in the industry, which i do believe made him an instant target at that particular time. >> it was september 12th, 2022. pnb rock and his fiance stephanie young, who is the mother of his daughter, stop at the iconic roscoe's in south la. >> he had two watches, several chainz rings on his fingers. and these were not just costume jewelry chains that, you know, do gain attention for those who may not know where they chose to eat is not a celebrity haunt. >> this is where you go when you want to fly under the radar. >> absolutely, i said, quite frankly, a half a million reasons, a half million dollars worth of reasons to come and take advantage of this young man. >> pnb rock and stephanie had been partners for years,

visiting la for a business meeting and to celebrate an engagement party for fellow rap star t grizzly, where the partiers compared their assets on social media posts. come on man. >> abs rollies. yeah, yeah, but pnb rock and stephanie dressed down to head to roscoe's, and stephanie had raised concerns about him wearing so much jewelry in a restaurant, he declined, telling her it's in god's hands. >> this surveillance footage shows pnb rock and stephanie walking in. it's lunch time 12:28 p.m. as they wait, a man seated to the right fist bumps the rapper, but the couple is quickly taken to a table. the waitress can later be seen bringing their food. stephanie posts a photo of their meal to instagram geo, tagging the restaurant's south la location. but what they don't know outside in the parking lot, a plot is

being hatched to rob the rapper of the half $1 million in jewelry that he's wearing. >> although it was 1230, i think this was like a tuesday. this was not a day that you would think that you need to keep your head on the swivel, or be alert to crime, or someone trying to jack me, rob me, steal from me. >> but at 1:16 p.m, a gunman walks inside, ready to score. >> there was some sort of verbal exchange at this point. >> at 1:17 p.m, the unarmed security guard notices the commotion and flees. seconds later, pnb rock is shot. his fiance stephanie, restaurant patrons and employees watch in horror. others flee. 1:22 p.m. lapd officers arrive on the scene. within five minutes, they attempt to save the rapper, who is still breathing. three bullets have ripped through his chest and back. the crime scene a mix of blood, jewels and the gun. pnb rock had stored in his

belt, resting on the table, standing in the doorway of roscoe's, a traumatized stephanie carries her phone, but as she runs to join pnb rock in the ambulance, lapd officers escort her to their car. stephanie is soon at headquarters answering questions. >> i just want to know if he's had it narrator: at this very moment, children at st. jude are fighting to survive. with a gift right now, you can join the battle to save lives. katy: without saint jude, i don't know where we would be. can we see snuggles? they have given children with cancer, like my winston, a chance. christine: she has neuroblastoma and it has spread to her liver. i try to enjoy every minute with her because i do not know when would be my last moments with her.

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we're back now with more of our exclusive investigation into the murder of philadelphia rapper pnb rock. 7-4 in all these police. >> what an embarrassment. >> lapd is on scene at roscoe's in south la, where bullets had been flying just minutes before. no no no no no no. philadelphia rapper pnb rock has been shot three times and is barely holding on, as seen in exclusive footage obtained by true crime news. officers pulled the rapper's distraught fiance back as she appears to reach for an item on the floor, later revealed to be pnb diamond pendant from his necklace. as cops worked the scene, word quickly spreads. pnb rock was

dead and the questions begin. >> a murder occurred following a posting on instagram or social media. the posting of that may have led to these individuals learning where he was at. >> social media users immediately start blaming stephanie's geotagged instagram post showing her meal. >> it's my fault. oh my god. >> stephanie blames herself as seen in this police interview video hours after the murder. >> i'm going to sit down and eat. i see, you know, it was low key. it wasn't no one in there. when we posted that chicken and waffles. >> just unfortunately happening way too often. >> just two years earlier, new york rapper pop smoke was robbed and killed in the hollywood hills after thieves learned his location from a social media post. nicki minaj posting on x after pop smoke. there's no way we as rappers or our loved ones are still posting locations to

our whereabouts. >> stephanie, i wouldn't sit here and blame yourself. you guys did wrong to me. that's a lot of jewelry on. yeah, i told him to take it off. >> as stephanie replays the tragic moments for cops, she is pleading to understand what happened to pnb. >> my text messages. everybody's saying sorry for your loss, but what is the media saying? is, is he okay? >> nearly a minute passes. >> i'm sorry. he passed away. he did. >> he did step in. >> sting gregorious. are you serious? i'm dead serious. >> yes you can. >> she appears to be in shock. >> i'm very sorry. you have people out here. that's going to be by your side. he was our

head. >> but as cops continue their questions, they soon learn from stephanie herself. someone in the restaurant that day seemed suspicious after spotting pnb bling. >> how did they know you guys were in there? besides the posting of anything, i felt like he got set up. >> before long, the deputy da confirms their investigation shows pnb was set up and stephanie's post had nothing to do with it. >> in that photograph was only the food. there wasn't an arm or jewelry or any type of wearable items. nothing valuable on the post that could not have given enough time to orchestrate a plan. >> instead, it all started with a man named dre'mont jones. does anybody know who they are? when they walk in? >> immediately. dre'mont jones, the gentleman who was sitting right inside the door. that fist bumped pnb rock knew who he was.

tremont jones loiters at the roscoe's. that's just his hangout spot. >> detectives soon gathered hours of surveillance video that pieces together exactly what happened in the minutes leading up to pnb. s murder. and after. from the moment tremont walks outside, he alerts another man named freddy truchon to come to roscoe's. prosecutors say they acted like two old school gangsters. so how is it that tremont jones tells freddy truchon? who and what is going on? >> the information was relayed who and what in the opportunity to get. maybe half $1 million is sitting inside this restaurant. >> it wasn't the first time pnb was targeted in la. he talked about it with podcaster dj akademiks over a week before the roscoe's shooting. >> you know, somebody tried me on fairfax, like mid-pandemic. >> this gangster out there on

fairfax. la is like they both at roscoe's. >> surveillance cameras record freddy truchon arriving in the parking lot. he chats with jones there, speaking. >> and at this point is where my position is that the conspiracy was triggered. >> trone leaves, but quickly returns with his own 17 year old son. >> the son is dropped off. he exits the rear driver's side, and he has a full face covering and this very distinctive purple fruity pebbles shirt. >> cops say dre'mont jones stays outside as the teen brushes past him. >> once he's inside tremont. jones knows plan is in action, and at that point, we're seconds away from seeing a muzzle flash captured inside a very grainy camera inside roscoe's. >> stephanie recounts the horrifying minute by minute details when the 17 year old

approaches them. >> as soon as he walked in, he pointed the gun at his stomach and said, give me all that or i'll shoot you right now. and he just started shooting them. he took his rings off. necklaces off. he took his two watches off, and he made me take my watch off. he said, give me that right now. i swear to god, i'll shoot you in the head. it was so scary. >> before he flees, the teenage gunman can be seen snatching diamond jewelry from pnb s body. prosecutors say the gunman's dad, freddy truchon, was outsi in a waiting car $0.25 per galln

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music and celebrating his life. we got the whole city, man. >> they know we did it. we standing on murder benches and los angeles police are on the trail of his killers. >> this surveillance video shows freddy, tron and his teenage son walking near their apartment minutes after the shooting. the son has changed clothes and not long after, tosses a bag into a dumpster. do you think they threw away their clothes? that would have all sorts of incriminating evidence as far as the shooter? >> yes. >> early the next morning, cops say freddy tron leaves the apartment and torches the getaway car. the same car seen picking up the hit man at roscoe's. >> so the car is the buick enclave. he sets it on fire blocks away from his residence and walks back home. >> investigators learned the car is registered to freddy's wife, chantal truchon. soon, chantal and the suspected 17 year old son and gunman are arrested. but freddy tron is nowhere to be

found. >> the block is hot. of course he's wanted now. his face is now on internet beside pnb rock. >> freddy flees to las vegas. the d.a. says his girlfriend, juanita evans, drives him out of town. >> so that's where i call her sidekick. but miss evans rents a vehicle and she drives him to nevada. >> but before long, tron is captured. lapd homicide investigators head to vegas and grill him. as heard in this exclusive interrogation audio. >> he goes by pnb rock. >> this is the case that we're investigating right now. >> that's really unfortunate. >> god bless that young man. >> so freddy denies he and his wife were involved in the roscoe's murder. >> if y'all figured this guy. my son did it. why do you hurt me? >> you're in here for murder for one 8-7. >> but cops can pin freddy, his son, and others to the heist and murder through the hours of surveillance footage. tron dre'mont jones, his wife and

girlfriend, along with his juvenile son, all face charges. >> one thing that freddie tron said on the stand that i really highlighted is he himself said his son was dangerous. >> in a los angeles courtroom, freddie tron is convicted of murder and robbery. dre'mont jones is found guilty of robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery. freddie's wife, chantelle tron, pleaded no contest to accessory after the fact, and juanita evans pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact. did you ever find the jewelry? >> no. >> did you find the murder weapon? no. wow. so you got a conviction without a murder weapon? >> no murder weapon, no property recovered? nothing. >> justice was served, but with little comfort to pnb rock's family and his fiancée, stephanie, who called him their shining light. when we come

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>> on the next true crime news. it's the story that gripped the nation. gabby petito, the beautiful woman posting her cross-country adventure on social media. oh my god, until she goes missing, revealing a dark secret. her boyfriend was abusive and ultimately killed her. now what her father is doing to help families searching for missing loved ones. >> we had so many people help us, we have to repay that on the next true crime news. >> while justice has been served for four of the five people involved in pnb rock's murder, the alleged gunman, who was 17 at the time of the killing, is being held in a juvenile facility after a judge ruled that he is not competent to stand trial. pnb rock's heartbroken mother, deanna

allen, spoke outside of court shortly after freddie lee trone was convicted of her son's murder. >> we are just very happy that we're getting justice because rakim is sorely and sorely missed by his family and especially the young people in my family, like my younger nieces and nephews. they really are devastated, and they looked up to him so much as a hero to the family. and now that he's gone, they they're so sad. they don't know what to do. >> that's it for today's true crime news. i'm anna garcia. see (dramatic music) - how shocking was amanda's murder? - this particular case was pretty shocking. female at 20 years old stabbed to death in a horrific way. (dramatic music continues) - it was a nike shoe print that was on the scene. it was about a size seven and a half. - had a lot of friends and coworkers. she was loved by many people. (eerie music) - he was definitely very controlling, very erratic.