PnB Rock is shot and killed during a Roscoe's House of Chicken 'N Waffles robbery

Why it matters

Rakim Allen, who recorded as PnB Rock, was shot and killed during an armed robbery at the Roscoe's House of Chicken 'N Waffles on Main Street and Manchester Boulevard in South Los Angeles on September 12, 2022. He was 30. His girlfriend Stephanie Sibounheuang had posted a real-time Instagram story showing their location at the restaurant. Freddie Lee Trone was eventually convicted of the killing in 2024. The location-tagging detail became the part of the story that traveled most widely, partly because it fit a recurring 2010s-and-2020s pattern of celebrity location-disclosure incidents and partly because of the gendered blame that the public discourse around the case quickly took on. PnB Rock himself had been one of the most-streamed Philadelphia-area MCs of the late 2010s, with songs like "Selfish" (2016) and "Cross Me" (2019) crossing into pop-radio rotation. He was 30. The 2010s Philadelphia rap scene lost one of its central figures in this incident, and the Roscoe's at Main and Manchester became, briefly, one of the most-photographed locations in LA. You should hear PnB Rock's catalog. The voice was distinctive.