He was walking along a road on Long Island when Robert Maraj, father of US rapper Nicki Minaj, was hit by a car. He succumbed to his injuries and the driver fled.
The father of US rapper Nicki Minaj was run over by a car near New York and killed. The 64-year-old Robert Maraj was walking along a street in Mineola on Long Island at 6.15 p.m. local time (00.15 CET) on Friday when he was hit by a car, the police said on Sunday. The driver fled from the scene of the accident.
According to the authorities, Maraj was taken to a hospital where he died on Saturday. The investigation would continue. A police spokesman confirmed that it was Minaj’s father.
The 38-year-old musician was born in Trinidad and Tobago and grew up in the New York borough of Queens. She has already been nominated ten times for the Grammy Music Prize.
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