PnB Rock's Cause of Death Released as Coroner Officially Rules Rapper's Killing a Homicide

Mar. 15, 2025

PnB Rock.Photo: Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images

PnB Rock’s death has been officially ruled a homicide.

The 30-year-old rapper was killed after being shot in the back and chest, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner ruled Friday.

He died in the hospital, the coroner reported.

On Monday, PnB Rock — real name Rakim Hasheem Allen — wasfatally shotwhile eating lunch with his girlfriend Stephanie Sibounheuang at Roscoe’s House of Chicken ‘N Waffles.

On Tuesday, Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said it was likelyan Instagram postalerted the assailant to the rapper’s location, perThe Los Angeles Times.

PnB Rock and his girlfriend.PnB Rock/Instagram

Just prior to the incident Sibounheuang had shared an Instagram Story of their lunch. The post was later deleted. Sibounheuang has also since deleted her Instagram account.

The couple shares a 2-year-old daughter, Xuri. The rapper was also a father to another daughter, 8-year-old Milan.

Inone of his final interviewstaped roughly a week before his death, PnB Rock spoke withDJ Akademiksabout rappers getting robbed in L.A.

“It’s so common,” he said, later adding, “I never got robbed. Ever in my life.”

He continued, “I ain’t gon’ say never. I don’t like saying ‘never.’ I’m not superstitious, but I haven’t been robbed.”

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“I’m not gonna put myself in those situations because I know what happens in those situations,” he said.

When DJ Akademiks noted that rappers are viewed as “targets,” PnB Rock shared that he “move[s] different” ever since his oldest “brother got killed.”

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“I’ve seen people die, I’ve been around people that died, but when that s— hits your crib, you know this is real life. Anybody could die. It could be anybody. The last person that you expect could die.”

Asked if that makes him “nervous,” PnB Rock said that it makes him “alert.”

source: people.com