{"id":385729,"date":"2026-04-10T22:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/385729\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:22:08","slug":"offset-released-from-hospital-after-shooting-issues-first-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/385729\/","title":{"rendered":"Offset released from hospital after shooting, issues first statement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Offset is on the mend after he was shot in Florida earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The former Migos rapper shared a statement on Instagram saying he was in \u201cgood\u201d condition but \u201cplanning to be better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m focused on my family, my recovery and getting back to the music &#8230; realizing that life is made up of quiet wins and loud losses,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cLife\u2019s a gamble and I\u2019m still playing to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Offset told the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/offset-migos-rapper-hospital-shooting-811c286d36e79aadae90713f1a55f359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Associated Press<\/a> on Friday that he has been released from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2026-04-06\/rapper-offset-shot-near-casino-valet-in-florida-two-people-detained\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Offset was shot<\/a> near the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino in Hollywood, Fla., on Monday evening, following a fight. Two people were detained in connection with the incident, and an investigation was ongoing, the Seminole Police Department told The Times earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Tione Jayden Merritt,  known professionally  as <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/music\/story\/2026-04-07\/lil-tjay-arrested-lawyer-disputes-offset-shooting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Tjay<\/a>, was one of the people arrested in connection with the incident on Monday, the police department told The Times. The rapper\u2019s apparent attorney  denied on <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DW0Tx36Dtbo\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a> that he was involved in the shooting. <\/p>\n<p>Offset, whose birth name is Kiari Kendrell Cephus, shares three children with estranged wife Cardi B. The rapper gained prominence as a member of the hip-hop  trio Migos during the 2010s. Takeoff, Offset\u2019s cousin and groupmate,  was fatally shot in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Times staff writers Clara Harter and Tracy Brown contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Offset is on the mend after he was shot in Florida earlier this week. The former Migos rapper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[183825,23140,177263,146,183875,58035,2085,4144,85,46,2400,183878,22324,183876,83845,183877,4032,2709],"class_list":{"0":"post-385729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-birth-name","9":"tag-casino","10":"tag-cousin","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-estranged-wife-cardi-b","13":"tag-fla","14":"tag-hollywood","15":"tag-hospital","16":"tag-il","17":"tag-israel","18":"tag-life","19":"tag-monday-evening","20":"tag-offset","21":"tag-prominence","22":"tag-rapper-offset","23":"tag-seminole-hard-rock-hotel","24":"tag-shooting","25":"tag-week"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}