BLOODHOUND Q50’S
FINAL HOURS.

Before dawn on September 13, a white Tesla sat near Wentworth Avenue in Chicago’s Fuller Park area with BloodHound Q50 behind the wheel. Multiple attackers walked up and opened fire. Videos FVTV reviewed show evidence spread across a wide stretch of ground and a car torn up by gunfire.

Before sunrise, the white Tesla barely moved

Within hours, the internet filled every gap with certainty. Some swore he tried to pull off. Others swore he fired back. Every post came with its own shot count, its own timeline and its own theory on why he was out there. The public evidence can’t carry that much confidence yet.

The tape doesn’t match the shootout the internet described

The main surveillance clip going around shows the Tesla sitting almost dead still as several people approach, the gunfire goes off and the attackers leave. In the footage FVTV reviewed, there’s no clear attempt by Q50 to drive off before the attack ends and no clear visual evidence of him shooting back.

None of the police-sourced reports confirm whether officers recovered a firearm from Q50 or the Tesla. The widely circulated @xspearz watermark belongs to one big repost chain, and earlier public CCTV posts were already moving through other accounts, so the tag doesn’t settle who owns the camera or who posted first.

Police-sourced reports describe a multi-shooter ambush

Secondary reports citing preliminary police information describe multiple attackers and two vehicles. One version that keeps getting repeated says six gunmen pulled up in a black Acura and a silver Honda Accord and let off more than 50 shots. Those details trace back to summaries of preliminary police info, and the full Chicago police incident report hasn’t surfaced anywhere in the public record so far.

One preserved scene image shows numbered evidence placards running to at least marker 53, and placards don’t map one-to-one onto casings or bullets. The 53, 68 and 81 shot counts floating around are still unresolved.

By late October, harder numbers were out. The Cook County medical examiner’s office found Q50 was hit five times, in the head, left shoulder, neck and back, and investigators recovered 50 casings from rifles and 9mm handguns, HotNewHipHop reported on October 20.

A bystander says she pressed on Q50's wounds

In her public posts and comments, Queen Draughn says she and her partner were just trying to get gas when they got caught up in the shooting. She describes pressing on Q50’s wounds once the gunfire stopped, telling him to breathe and ending up with his blood on her hands and clothes.

Draughn describes herself as a bystander who stopped to help, and her account pokes a hole in the assumption that everybody seen near the Tesla rolled up with Q50.

The timeline still doesn’t line up

Reported shooting times run from about 4 a.m. to almost 6 a.m. The timestamp on the circulating CCTV doesn’t cleanly match every police-sourced account, the location bounces between 42nd and Wentworth and 43rd and Wentworth, and the accounts split on who was near the Tesla.

Those gaps leave the ambush standing. They matter for anybody trying to rebuild the minutes before it.

Hear Q50 out before the headlines take over

In interviews from 2025 and 2026, Q50 talked about survivor’s guilt, making it through Chicago, mental health, his plans for the future and the pressure that landed on him after Lil Jeff’s death.

In a Real Street Comedy interview recorded before his killing and released after it, Q50 said Jeff was the rapper first and the one who pushed him toward music. He shut down the idea that losing Jeff helped his career. He’d have rather had Jeff live long enough to put him in position himself than inherit that position through grief.

No fake struggle story

In that same interview, Q50 said his upbringing was stable, money-wise. He called himself spoiled, the “golden child,” and never tried to rewrite his bio as a hard-knock story. By his own account, what shaped him was environment, loyalty, grief, relationships and choices that hardened over time.

The last interview reads different now

Near the end of the interview, Q50 talks about studying the people around him, about jealousy and fake friends, and about advice that pushed him to put distance between himself and certain faces. He never says he saw an attack coming or who might be behind one. What you hear is a young man, shortly before his death, thinking hard about jealousy, access and who deserved a spot around him.

Asked where he wanted to be by 30, Q50 said he didn’t expect to still be rapping. He wanted enough financial security to put his people in position. His final official video, “Too Stuck,” dropped September 9. Four days later, he was gone.

The beef is backstory

Q50’s public life included diss records, online confrontations and public disputes involving YFG Fatso, 600 Breezy, Mac Mula, TC, Champ, Lil Dre and BigMooka. All that history explains the temperature around his music and the retaliation talk that popped up after his death. None of it names who planned or pulled off the shooting.

The Tesla might know more than the tape

Nothing public yet says who owned the white Tesla, when Q50 got in it or why he was at that spot. There’s no public confirmation that investigators pulled usable camera footage, location history or any other data off the car. Those systems could pin down when the car arrived and whether more angles exist, and whether anybody’s tapped them in this case is still an open question.

How fast a man turned into content

Within hours of Q50’s death, the surveillance video was on every feed. Reposts outran verification and the watermarks kept stacking. The harder story sat under the viral one: Q50 was 22, had already survived a shooting, talked openly about survivor’s guilt and was carrying responsibilities after Lil Jeff’s death that he said he never wanted to inherit that way.

The footage backs up one big conclusion: this was a sustained ambush aimed at the Tesla where Q50 was sitting. Who planned it, what happened right before the attackers pulled up, whether somebody knew where he’d be and which online claims connect to the shooters are all still unanswered.