Houston native Ghost Magneto along with friend Kenyon Tennessee were discovered shot outside Club Onyx around 4:00 am while sitting inside a Mercedes-Benz sedan. According to witnesses who were also present stated to authorities that they heard shots however could not tell the direction they were coming from but learned that the rapper was one of the victims.
Police spokesperson Larry Crowson, who was present on the scene, suggested that he believed that both deceased males were targeted by two shooters. Family members of 24-year-old Nicholas Esene believe he might have gotten involved with the wrong crowd as it related to his music career.
Click2Houston.com reports, “The bodies were discovered after police said a patron heard gunshots and alerted a security guard who found the men shot to death in the back parking lot of Club Onyx near Richmond Avenue and Bering Drive around 4:17 a.m. Tuesday.” It is believed the men were targeted, and at least two suspects fled the scene.
Brenda Harris, Esene’s grandmother, said about her grandson, “He was excited about making his album and he had just [moved] into a house. He was so excited. He called me and said, ‘Granny, you will have to come and see my place. After the doctor’s appointment, we were going to go and visit with him and then we go and get this call before I leave home.”
This is a developing story.