She Thought She’d Get Away With Killing a Rapper — Then the Judge Spoke!
“Okay. All right. Let’s bring Mr. Jimenez in. When they were reporting about opening statements, I think they began an interview with Mr. Jimenez.”
She sat in the courtroom applying makeup and laughing, thinking she would get away with her crime. But as the jury announced the verdict, her smile faded into oblivion.
“We, the jury, find as follows as to count one, the defendant is guilty.”
Only then did Alicia Andrews truly understand the weight of what she had been a part of and that her life as she knew it was over. On the night of June 23rd, 2024, Charles Jones, known as Julio Fulio, was brutally murdered on his very own birthday. Yes, Fulio was celebrating his 20th birthday in Tampa, just a few hours from his hometown of Jacksonville. But for those who knew him, this was not just another party. It was the life of a man who had lived surrounded by danger.
“Happy birthday. Okay. Everybody take on three, man. One, two, three.”
Fulio had survived shootings before. He had survived threats that would have silenced most men. Yet that night, he chose to throw caution to the wind. Fulio shared his location openly, posting about the party and telling fans to DM him for the address. Everyone knew where he was going to be.
“You already got an address. Pull up, man. You got to pull up. If you need the address, DM me right now. The pool party starts at 5:00 or 6:00. DM me for the address of D Fio Booking ESPN.”
The party started at a crowded Airbnb, but it was shut down by the police. Fulio and his crew moved to another location, determined to keep celebrating, but not everyone who followed him that night came to celebrate. Some had far more sinister plans. And then the worst and the inevitable happened. By the time he reached a hotel at the end of the night, the inevitable happened. Three shooters emerged from a car, firing before anyone could react. Everyone in the car was hit, but Fulio was the only one who did not make it. Police would later reveal that among the others, Isaiah Chance, better known as Gooday, and his girlfriend Alicia Andrews, had been following Fulio’s trail in Tampa.
“She identifies herself because you are not really going to be able to see her face, but she says, ‘Yeah, I’m in that car. That’s me.'”
But this was not random. Fulio was associated with the Six Block gang while Gooday belonged to ATK, a long-standing rival group, making Isaiah his nemesis. The rivalry between these gangs had escalated over time. Police reports indicate that Alicia Andrews helped track and surveil the rapper. She was not part of her boyfriend’s gang, but she helped them avoid detection by using her phone and car instead.
“Come out.”
She and her boyfriend then shared Fulio’s location to the shooters who would carry out the fatal attack. Their involvement was more than incidental and hence both of them were arrested along with the other suspects involved. The trial unfolded with a heaviness that never left the room. The defense tried to paint a completely different picture than what evidence showed. According to them, Alicia was a young woman caught in something far bigger than herself, someone manipulated and pressured by dangerous men.
“Davon is in the video. You see him smoking and puffing and Alicia wants to say something, but she can’t because she’s afraid.”
They insisted that she had no knowledge of the plan to target Fulio and that she was not an active participant in the crime. They also argued that she was simply with her boyfriend that night and had been unknowingly caught up in a dangerous situation. According to them, her presence around the group of men planning the attack did not mean she shared their intentions or had any part of the scheme.
“Took over. She won’t say anything. Not because she was trying to hide herself. She didn’t say anything because she was scared.”
Her lawyers emphasized that his client had been cooperative with investigators from the start and that the prosecution was trying to oversimplify her role, painting her as a girlfriend blindly following her boyfriend into criminal activity.
“Of not guilty. Thank you.”
“Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Malcolm. All right. State, who is going to be your first witness?”
“Aaliyah Albert.”
The prosecution, however, contended that Andrews was not merely an innocent bystander. Police surveillance footage showed her following Fulio across multiple locations and coordinating with Isaiah Chance, which the prosecution argued indicated that she was part of the scheme. Her phone’s history and deleted messages also showed that she was no victim.
“The exhibit where Alicia at 17 years old says that Fulio needs to die. Did you locate this text message?”
In their view, her presence and actions were not accidental or coincidental, but integral to the planning and execution of the attack. Besides, should not intent or awareness matter as much as actions? And what of Fulio himself? Even with a criminal history and ties to gang activity, did he deserve to die that night?
“Guilty of conspiring with these four men and guilty as a principal to first-degree murder.”
And folks, what makes the story even more bizarre is how Alicia Andrews appeared during her trial, smiling, laughing, and casually putting on makeup, showing little to no outward concern for the life that had been lost. That coldness, whether genuine or performative, seemed almost unimaginable in the face of such a tragedy. Her lawyers were the same, laughing and making faces.
“Okay. All right. Let’s bring Mr. Jimenez in.”
Yet the judge saw through it all.
“I need to stop right now because you know what? You’ve been making faces throughout this entire trial. This entire trial? Yeah, you have been. And everything’s been caught on.”
And when the final verdict came through, those smiles vanished like they had never existed. Alicia Andrews was found guilty of manslaughter in the killing of Julio Fulio.
“We, the jury, find as follows as to count one. The defendant is guilty of manslaughter, a lesser included offense.”
As of now, Andrews is the only defendant whose trial has concluded. Her sentence is set to be announced on December 8th, 2025. The remaining defendants in the Julio Fulio murder case, Isaiah Chance, known as Gurise, along with Sha Gathight, Rashad Murphy, and Davon Murphy, are still behind bars, waiting for the justice system to decide their fate.
“I’m finding that there is a substantial probability that all three defendants committed the dangerous crimes that they are charged with.”
Court records show that the three of them, Chance, Gathight, and Rashad Murphy, are tentatively set to stand trial in April 2026, while the fourth, Davon Murphy, does not even have a firm date yet. They have all been denied bond, a reminder of how severe the charges are and how deeply the courts fear the possibility of more violence if they were released. The judge ordered that all three suspects will be held without bond. Meanwhile, the legal wheels continue to turn slowly but heavily. Pre-trial motions, hearings, and depositions are being prepared for late 2025 and early 2026 as prosecutors piece together a case built on surveillance footage, phone data, and a trail of movements leading up to that tragic night.
“That is Mr. Gathight walking out with a large duffel bag and Isaiah Chance walking out.”
Officials are still weighing whether to pursue the death penalty for the defendants facing first-degree murder, a decision that would raise the stakes far beyond the courtroom. With multiple suspects, gang-related ties, and layers of evidence, these trials are expected to be long, complicated, and emotionally draining for everyone connected to Fulio’s life and his loss. However, no matter what the sentence is, a man lost his life on what was meant to be a day of celebration, and nothing can bring him back. Whether justice will truly be served is yet to be seen. For updates on Andrew’s sentencing and the ongoing trials of the other suspects, make sure to hit subscribe.
