Rapper Lil TJay shot multiple times in New Jersey during attempted robbery
Lil Tjay, who has over 7 million followers on Instagram and more than 17 million listeners on Spotify, was wounded during an attempted armed robbery in Edgewater, officials said.
He was shot multiple times early in the morning at the Promenade in Edgewater.
Investigators determined that suspect Mohamed Konate, 27, of New York, “attempted to commit armed robbery” against Lil Tjay, and two people he was with, Jeffrey Valdez, 24, of the Bronx, New York, and Boyd when the shooting occurred, according to the prosecutor's office.
Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and the New York City Police Department on Wednesday arrested Konate on three counts of attempted murder, three counts of armed robbery and other weapons charges, the release stated. He is pending extradition to New Jersey.