Cops arrested the man allegedly responsible for shooting up an SUV in Queens — killing a rapper, who was an associate of 50 Cent’s G-Unit, and wounding three others.
Jamal Scott, 35, was nabbed by cops Monday at his job a Hyatt Place hotel on West 36th Street for the Jan. 3 shootout and charged with murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
Victim, Jamal Green, 42 – better known as Mazaradi Fox – recorded songs with 50 Cent and appeared in many videos with members of G-Unit, according to fan web site “This is 50.”
“Saddened by the news of Mazaradi’s tragic passing my thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends,” 50 Cent tweeted the same day Fox was killed.
Fox was in an SUV with three others on Farmers Boulevard and 134th Avenue when a hail of bullets blasted through the windows, police said. Fox took a fatal shot to the chest, while the other passengers suffered non-life-threatening injuries, cops said.
The gunman fled in a dark sedan.
Scott has 10 prior arrests for criminal possession of a weapon, criminal sale and possession of a controlled substance, and criminal possession of stolen property, cops said.
Fox also had his own rap label named Dumout.