Foolio murder: Suspect's trial delayed until October
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Jury selection was slated to begin in Hillsborough County Monday in the trial of Alicia Andrews.

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla — The trial of one of five suspects accused in the murder of Jacksonville rapper Charles Jones, also known as Foolio, has been delayed until October.

Jury selection was slated to begin Monday in the trial of Alicia Andrews in Hillsborough County, but the state filed a motion for a continuance in the case after the state’s lead prosecutor experienced a “medical emergency.”

The trial has been rescheduled for Monday, Oct. 20, with jury selection.

Andrews is accused of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in Jones’s death.

Jones was killed when he was ambushed and gunned down at a Tampa Holiday Inn in June 2024. He was a well-known, prominent member of the Jacksonville gang 6Block. Several of the defendants are documented members or “associates” of rival gangs often linked to each other, ATK and 1200. 

State attorneys have called the ambush a premeditated murder stemming from an “ongoing gang war.”

Andrews is the only defendant the state has not documented as a gang member, and therefore, she does not face the possibility of a gang enhancement to her charges.

The Tampa Police Department says Andrews assisted Isaiah Chance Jr. in tracking and following Jones and his entourage to two separate locations the night of the shooting. She was not described in police reports or prior statements as firing any weapons, however.

While Chance and Andrews are accused of aiding in stalking Jones and tracking him down, the remaining three suspects are accused of acting as the shooters.

Andrews was arrested in Jacksonville along with Chance when police served a search warrant at a residence on Captiva Bluff Road North.

Andrews’ attorneys had planned to argue that she was suffering from domestic abuse at the hands of Chance. However, a judge ruled that Andrews’ attorneys cannot introduce this evidence; in capital murder cases in Florida, defendants cannot argue they committed the crime under duress.

A judge had also previously ruled that the state may introduce evidence related to past gang murders to make its case against the Foolio suspects.

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