{"id":115462,"date":"2026-01-08T13:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115462\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:05:16","slug":"dallas-rapper-dead-at-age-25-after-new-years-day-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115462\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas rapper dead at age 25 after New Year\u2019s Day shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Up-and-coming Dallas rapper Zeethewizard died Monday from injuries stemming from a shooting during the early hours of New Year\u2019s Day, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/dpdbeat.com\/2026\/01\/05\/homicide-on-empire-central-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dallas Police Department;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dallas Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident took place outside a Dallas strip club called Pink House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities responded to Empire Central near the northbound Stemmons Freeway around 3:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Once there, authorities discovered multiple shooting victims at the scene due to an altercation, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As a result, five people, including Zeethewizard, born Zecquire Fields, 25, were transported by Dallas Fire-Rescue to a local hospital, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/dallas-rapper-zeethewizard-dies-new-years-shooting-dallas-strip-club-pink-house\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CBS News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">CBS News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The rapper was in critical condition for a time before succumbing to his injuries on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities didn\u2019t share the conditions of the other victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A CBS News Texas crew at the scene reported seeing a heavy police presence in the parking lot of the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the Pink House\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pinkhouse.dallas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram page;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram page<\/a>, it\u2019s a new strip club in Dallas that was celebrating the grand opening of its new after-hours event on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">So far, no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Oak Cliff, Texas, native was part of a new Dallas movement of rappers promoting a more positive agenda over violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fellow rapper HeadHuncho Amir turned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTJmQIFjKV2\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a> on Monday to pay tribute to his fallen friend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He wrote, in part: \u201cSince Kids To Grown Men We Been Locked I\u2019m Lost For Words It Hurt Even Deeper When 20mins After I Got Done Praying That You Pull Thru I Get The Txt You Ain Make it. I\u2019ll Never Let Them Forget About You To Know Zee Is To Know Bro Was A Cool Genuine, Loving, Respectful Person Ms Shannon Raised You Well You Ain Deserve That S&#8211;t Kid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/entertainment\/2026\/01\/dallas-rapper-dead-at-25-after-new-years-day-shooting.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:pennlive.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">pennlive.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Up-and-coming Dallas rapper Zeethewizard died Monday from injuries stemming from a shooting during the early hours of New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,9379,104,103,4081,48578],"class_list":{"0":"post-115462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-fire-rescue","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-dallas-police-department","13":"tag-pink-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}