C. Gambino: masked rap artist dead at 26 after being murdered in car-park ambush

Award-winning Swedish rap artist C. Gambino has died at the age of 26 after being ambushed by gunmen in a car park in Gothenburg, Sweden overnight (June 4 2024).

The In Memory of Some Stand Up Guys artist, who only in March this year won a Grammis award for Hip-Hop Artist of the Year, was said to have been ambushed by gunmen while parking his car in the parking garage at Selma Lagerlöfs Torg and was rushed shortly to a local hospital but died as the results of his injuries. 

Investigators revealed that they found seven bullet marks on a glass door of the parking garage upon arriving at the garage.

Though no one has yet been arrested over the shooting, authorities in Sweden believe it was a targeted attack and investigators are under the current theory that the murder was related to the ongoing gang conflict that has plagued parts of Gothenburg in recent years, especially around the Biskopsgården area according to local newspaper Göteborgs-Posten. 

Known to be incredibly protective of his identity, the masked C. Gambino, born Karar Ramadan, emerged on the Gothenburg suburban scene in the early 2020s. In the fall of 2021, he appeared for the first time on the Swedish Singles Chart. 

He had two number ones on the singles chart, Automatic last autumn and Svar in January this year, and with close to a million listeners on Spotify, he was considered one of Sweden’s biggest hopes to break into the international hip-hop market.