Jury selection was set to begin Monday in Tampa in the trial of a Jacksonville woman who is accused of murder in connection with the shooting death of Charles Jones, a Jacksonville rapper known as “Julio Foolio.”

Alicia Andrews, 21, is the first of five people accused in the shooting to go to trial. She is the only defendant not facing the death penalty in the case.

Jones, 26, was shot and killed on June 23, 2024, in an ambush attack while celebrating his birthday in Tampa.

Court documents accuse Andrews, Isaiah Chance, Sean Gathright, Davion Murphy and Rashad Murphy of traveling from Jacksonville to Tampa on June 22, 2024, in two separate cars to find and kill Jones in retaliation for an ongoing Jacksonville gang war between 6Block and allied gangs, ATK and 1200.

Officials said Chance

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