Kevin Fret Rodríguez (June 11, 1993 – January 10, 2019)[1] was a Puerto Rican rapper, singer and the first openly gay male Latin trap artist.
He used social media to advocate against bullying and used his voice as a member of the LGBT community to encourage other new artists beginning their careers.
He was a graduate of the Roger L Putnam Vocational-Technical High School in Springfield, MA and had grown up in the city and in nearby Chicopee.
[10][11][12][13][14] On January 10, 2019, Fret was riding his motorcycle in Santurce, San Juan at about 5:30 am when an unidentified gunman shot at him eight times, hitting him in the head and hip.
[15] In 2022, Betzaida Quiñones Rodríguez, a prosecutor working on the case alleged she had been "instructed to stop" the investigation into Fret's murder.