A gunman in the 2015 murder of rapper Chinx has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for his role in the grisly shooting. On Monday (Aug. 12), Quincy Homere, who previously plead guilty to one count ...

Chinx Drugz, a rising rap star out of Queens, was shot and killed on this date in 2009. Chinx, who dropped “Drugz” from his name shortly before he was killed, was born Lionel Mickens, a Far Rockaway, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — He was an up-and-coming rapper whose ...

Today would have marked the fortieth birthday of Lionel Pickens, known to the world as Chinx, a rising Queens star whose life and career were cut short far too soon. Even nine years after his passing, ...

BRIARWOOD -- Police are hunting for the gunman who shot and killed a Queens-born rapper in his car early Sunday. 31-year old Lionel Pickens died after being shot multiple times in the chest in the ...