Bay Area rapper Spice 1 is recovering in an East Bay hospital after being shot in his car outside his parents' Hayward home, authorities said Thursday.
The rapper, 37, whose given name is Robert Green, was shot in the chest about 12:30 a.m. Monday in an SUV on the 26000 block of Chiplay Avenue, said Hayward police Lt. Reid Lindblom.
Green told officers that he was sitting in his Cadillac Escalade when someone came up to the window and shot him through the glass. He suffered a collapsed lung, his family said.
No motive for the shooting has been established, and no arrests have been made, Lindblom said.
"He's in pain, but otherwise he's coming along really well," his mother, Jean Green-Craven, 57, said Thursday from Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley.
"He's a very lucky young man," she said.
Green has put out more than a dozen albums and has worked with rappers Method Man, Too , Ice-T and the late Tupac Shakur.
Green's stepfather, Jerry Craven, 57, said that "everybody loves him" and that "my son would always tell me if he had got into a confrontation or an argument at party, and that has never happened."
Green would "give you his last dime," his stepfather said.
He told his family that he had been listening to music and talking to his girlfriend on the phone while sitting in the Escalade. Someone then walked up to the passenger side of the vehicle and tried to "jimmy" the door, Craven said.
Green demanded to know who it was and was shot, Craven said.
Craven said it was possible that someone was trying to steal the Escalade without realizing his stepson was inside. The vehicle has tinted windows, and it was dark, Craven said.
"I don't think it was rap-related," Craven said.
Green was born in Texas and moved to the Bay Area when he was 5. He attended Mount Eden High School in Hayward and got into rap in the early 1980s, his family said.
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The rapper, 37, whose given name is Robert Green, was shot in the chest about 12:30 a.m. Monday in an SUV on the 26000 block of Chiplay Avenue, said Hayward police Lt. Reid Lindblom.
Green told officers that he was sitting in his Cadillac Escalade when someone came up to the window and shot him through the glass. He suffered a collapsed lung, his family said.
No motive for the shooting has been established, and no arrests have been made, Lindblom said.
"He's in pain, but otherwise he's coming along really well," his mother, Jean Green-Craven, 57, said Thursday from Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley.
"He's a very lucky young man," she said.
Green has put out more than a dozen albums and has worked with rappers Method Man, Too , Ice-T and the late Tupac Shakur.
Green's stepfather, Jerry Craven, 57, said that "everybody loves him" and that "my son would always tell me if he had got into a confrontation or an argument at party, and that has never happened."
Green would "give you his last dime," his stepfather said.
He told his family that he had been listening to music and talking to his girlfriend on the phone while sitting in the Escalade. Someone then walked up to the passenger side of the vehicle and tried to "jimmy" the door, Craven said.
Green demanded to know who it was and was shot, Craven said.
Craven said it was possible that someone was trying to steal the Escalade without realizing his stepson was inside. The vehicle has tinted windows, and it was dark, Craven said.
"I don't think it was rap-related," Craven said.
Green was born in Texas and moved to the Bay Area when he was 5. He attended Mount Eden High School in Hayward and got into rap in the early 1980s, his family said.
E-mail Henry K. Lee at [email protected].
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