The conflict unfolded on Trinity Avenue outside Monaco Hookah Lounge around 3:20 a.m. Bennett and a large group of associates from the OTF circle had arrived at the venue when an impromptu confrontation ignited with Savannah rapper Quando Rondo (Tyquian Bowman) and his entourage. Surveillance footage recovered by the Atlanta Police Department (APD) captured Bennett approaching Bowman in the parking lot. A physical altercation began immediately, but within seconds, gunfire erupted from an adjacent parked vehicle.
Timothy Leaks, an associate of Bowman, stepped forward with a handgun and fired multiple rounds at Bennett from point-blank range. The gunfire caused immediate pandemonium. Two off-duty Atlanta police officers working security nearby, along with an on-duty officer patrolling the perimeter, ran toward the scene and discharged their service weapons to neutralize active shooters. In the crossfire, five men were shot, two died instantly at the scene, and Bennett collapsed onto the pavement with life-threatening wounds.
Associates placed Bennett into a private vehicle rather than waiting for civilian EMS to navigate the chaotic perimeter. He arrived at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta's premier Level 1 trauma center, within minutes. Emergency trauma teams initiated advanced resuscitation protocols, intubated Bennett, and took him directly into the operating suite. Despite intensive surgical efforts to repair severe vascular perforations, surgeons pronounced Bennett dead later that morning.
