Rapper Kodak Black is wasting no time putting his newfound freedom to good use. TMZ reported that the “ZEZE” rapper has offered to pay the college tuition for the children of two FBI agents who were recently shot and killed in the line of duty in his home state of Florida earlier this week.
The media outlet stated that Kodak’s lawyer Bradford Cohen reached out to the Miami Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation via a letter with a proposal to pay for the children’s college tuition. The note said in part that Kodak “knows what it’s like to lose loved ones and grow up in a single-parent home” and wanted to ensure the affected families didn’t have the added stress of college tuition in the years to come.
Cohen reportedly has a friend in the Miami office who informed him about the tragic incident involving agents Daniel Alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger. Cohen’s source told him that both officers had minor children, which he later relayed to his client Kodak.
Alfin and Schwartzenberger were serving search warrants on Tuesday, Feb. 2, in Sunrise, Florida, when they were killed. Three other agents were also injured. Alfin is survived by a 3-year-old child, and Schwartzenberger is survived by a 4-year-old and a 9-year-old.
The “Tunnel Vision” emcee’s generous offer comes just a few weeks following his prison release. During his final days as president, Donald Trump granted Kodak a commutation. The 23-year-old was serving a nearly four-year bid at Big Sandy Penitentiary in Inez, Kentucky. The rapper, whose real name is Bill Kahan Kapri, pleaded guilty to lying on an federal application to purchase a firearm. At the time, Kodak had already served almost half of his sentence.
TMZ reported that Kodak’s endless charitable acts formed one of the main reasons why Trump agreed to pardon the rapper. The Florida rapper donated $20K last Christmas for a toy drive held in Broward County, where he grew up. Items included gift cards, dolls, stuffed animals, scooters, and more.
The year before he joined forces with a now 15-year-old, Paige Cook, to donate school supplies to students in low-income neighborhoods in Texas’ Cleburne Independent School District. Kodak gave $12,500 so Cook could purchase notebooks for her peers.
