Baby Uiie has reportedly been shot and killed outside of a smoke shop in Los Angeles
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Jabari Henley, known to many as Baby Uiie, fell outside a smoke shop on 69th Street and Figueroa late on October 31, 2025.
The 25-year-old was leaving the store around midnight when unknown attackers opened fire in what police describe as a brazen ambush.
Paramedics rushed to the scene, but Henley succumbed to his wounds right there on the cracked sidewalk, his body covered by a white sheet as officers worked frantically to revive him.
He was the son of Eugene Henley Jr., better known as Big U, a towering figure in the Rollin 60s Neighborhood Crips who spent decades navigating the treacherous world of South L.A. gangs before pivoting to music and community work.
Big U played a key role in launching careers like that of the late Nipsey Hussle, turning his street smarts into a bridge between hip-hop’s raw edges and its redemptive stories.
Yet even as he stepped back from the front lines, the past has a way of pulling people back in—Henley’s killing feels like a grim reminder of that pull.
Eyewitness videos circulating online capture the chaos in stark detail: flashing police lights cut through the night, yellow tape seals off the shop’s door, and bystanders huddle on the sidelines, phones held high.
One clip shows an LAPD officer kneeling beside the shrouded figure, pressing down in desperate chest compressions.
The air hums with distant party music from Halloween block bashes, a jarring contrast to the finality unfolding curbside.
Graffiti on nearby walls—faded nods to old-school rap crews—frames the scene like a snapshot from a forgotten album cover.
