The Bronx Rapper Who Punched a Girl, 24 Hours Later He Was K*lled for It

The Bronx Rapper Who Punched a Girl, 24 Hours Later He Was K*lled for It Around 10:30 p.m. on August 7, 2025, Ralph "Chicken" Herrera stood outside Exotic World on Westchester Avenue in the Soundview section of the Bronx when a man wearing a hood walked straight toward him, closed the gap without hesitation, then fired one shot into his head before disappearing down the block. Although surveillance cameras recorded nearly everything while officers recovered a shell casing within minutes, that footage only deepened the mystery, especially after people realized Herrera had appeared in another video less than twenty-four hours earlier that had already spread across countless phones. The real story was never only about the shooting, so the bigger question became how two cameras, operating one day apart, completely changed one man's name forever.