{"id":349986,"date":"2025-11-02T09:01:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/349986\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T09:01:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:01:24","slug":"la-crips-leader-eugene-big-u-henleys-son-jabari-henley-shot-dead-in-los-angeles-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/349986\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Crips leader Eugene &#8216;Big U&#8217; Henley&#8217;s son Jabari Henley shot dead in Los Angeles shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The son of longtime LA Crips leader and music mogul lauded as the \u201cgodfather\u201d of rap was gunned down outside a smoke shop Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Jabari \u201cBaby\u00a0Uiie\u201d Henley, whose father Eugene Henley Jr. is the former head of the Rollin\u2019 60\u2019s Neighborhood Crips, was on the corner of 69th Street and Figueroa Street in South Los Angeles around 11 p.m. when a gunman opened fire,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/11\/01\/big-u-son-jabari-henley-dead-shot-halloween\/?adid=social-tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> according to TMZ.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Henley, 34, walked up to a car on the street when the suspect or suspects shot him, the Los Angeles Police Department told TMZ <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/reports-son-of-rap-executive-alleged-rolling-60s-crips-leader-shot-dead-in-l-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and KTLA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jabari \u201cBaby\u00a0Uiie\u201d Henley was shot and killed at the corner of 69th Street and Figueroa Street in South Los Angeles on Oct. 31, 2025. x\/submundodocrime<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified suspect fled the area and remains at large on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>First responders attempted life-saving measures, but Henley was pronounced dead at the scene and a tarp was placed over his body, according to video obtained by TMZ.<\/p>\n<p>Henley is also the older brother of Los Angeles Charger inside linebacker Daiyan Henley.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the eldest Henley turned himself over to federal agents in March for allegedly running a \u201cMafia-like\u201d criminal enterprise involving murder, human trafficking, robbery and extortion on the streets of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Henley Jr. \u2014 known as \u201cBig U\u201d in the music industry \u2013 was among 18 alleged members of the Rollin 60s street gang charged in the sprawling March 19 federal racketeering\u00a0complaint brought by the US Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Eugene \u201cBig U\u201d Henley Jr. is accused of running the vast criminal operation \u2014 dubbed by investigators as the \u201cBig U Enterprise\u201d \u2014 like a mob boss, the complaint charges. AP<\/p>\n<p>Eugene Henley Jr. attends a premiere in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 2021. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The 58-year-old was the main target of the 43-count indictment, alleging that he ran the RICO network suspected in dozens of felonies, tax evasion and embezzlement of donations to his charity dubbed the \u201cBig U Enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the indictment alleges, Mr. Henley led a criminal enterprise whose conduct ranged from murder to sophisticated fraud that included stealing from taxpayers and a charity,\u201d Acting United States Attorney Joseph McNally said in March. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEradicating gangs and organized crime is the Department of Justice\u2019s top priority. Today\u2019s charges against the leadership of this criminal outfit will make our neighborhoods in Los Angeles safer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Henley Jr. is suspected in the murder of aspiring musician\u00a0Rayshawn Williams in January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who had signed with Henley Jr.\u2019s Uneek Music label, was fatally shot after he recorded a defamatory song about the rap bigwig, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-cdca\/pr\/long-time-rollin-60s-neighborhood-crips-leader-charged-43-count-indictment-alleging\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Attorney\u2019s Office said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After allegedly killing Williams, Henley Jr. is believed to have dragged the 21-year-old\u2019s body off Interstate 15 in Las Vegas and left it in a ditch.<\/p>\n<p>Music mogul Termaine Ashley Williams, known as \u201cLuce Cannon,\u201d was named in the indictment and is currently jailed inside the Metropolitan Detention Center in LA. He broke the news of the shooting to Henley Jr., according to TMZ.<\/p>\n<p>Eugene Henley Jr. \u2014 aka \u201cBig U\u201d \u2014 was one of 18 members of the Rollin\u2019 60s Neighborhood Crips street gang charged Wednesday in a sprawling federal racketeering\u00a0complaint. He is pictured hugging rapper Nipsey Hussle.  WireImage<\/p>\n<p>He was one of 18 members of the Rollin\u2019 60s Neighborhood Crips street gang charged Wednesday in a sprawling federal racketeering\u00a0complaint, the US attorney\u2019s office said. Department of Justice<\/p>\n<p>The two indicted men were heartbroken and the fatal shooting was made harder because of their imprisonment, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Williams believes Henley knew his killer.<\/p>\n<p>The LAPD did not confirm details of the shooting or if it was gang-related, TMZ reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The son of longtime LA Crips leader and music mogul lauded as the \u201cgodfather\u201d of rap was gunned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":349987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,5416,12784,2961,224,5337,3677,1154],"class_list":{"0":"post-349986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-deaths","11":"tag-gangs","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-shootings","16":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115479293852795599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}