Slain rapper PnB Rock’s girlfriend says ‘my man saved my life’ as she breaks silence

Warning: This story discusses self-harm.

Stephanie Sibounheuang is publicly mourning the lack of her boyfriend PnB Rock, a month after the rapper was shot and killed throughout a theft in September.

On Thursday, Sibounheuang posted a video montage on Instagram set to PnB Rock’s track “UNI.” The clip exhibits the rapper kissing and holding Sibounheuang, singing to their daughter and paragliding. On the finish of the video, the music stops abruptly and the household raises their glasses in a toast at a restaurant. Sibounheuang’s caption takes a extra somber tone.

“I’m 100% not okay. If I wasn’t religious I might kill my self (however then I’ll go to hell and my man not there),” she wrote.

In her Instagram publish, Sibounheuang recalled the deadly capturing on the Roscoe’s Hen & Waffles in South L.A. that claimed her boyfriend’s life. On Sept. 12, PnB was consuming with Sibounheuang when an assailant tried to rob him of his jewellery and shot him a number of occasions earlier than working out a facet door. Lower than an hour after the capturing, Rock was pronounced useless.

Sibounheuang wrote that “my man saved my life” and “I’m not alleged to be right here however [because] of him. I’m.”

She recounted particulars from the crime — which she stated she always relives in her head — together with being “pressured behind a police automobile, locked in an interrogation room all evening.” Sibounheuang stated that “every thing was lastly good for our household” earlier than his killing.

She praised him as loyal and affected person and stated she instructed the rapper, “I do know you my husband. I do know you my soulmate” on their final day collectively.

“Even it was for a little bit bit. A minimum of we obtained to expertise what having a soul mate is… and for that…I’m grateful,” she continued. “You instructed me u hate it took so lengthy, u want you’d’ve modified means sooner.”

Thursday’s publish was Sibounheuang’s first for the reason that rapper’s demise. Whereas investigating the capturing, Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore stated that Rock’s demise occurred quickly after he was tagged on-line as being on the restaurant. Earlier than her boyfriend’s demise, Sibounheuang disclosed that she was at Roscoe’s Hen & Waffles with Rock in a since-deleted Instagram publish. Police have been investigating whether or not that’s what prompted the assault.

He “was together with his household — together with his girlfriend or some sort of pal of his — and as they’re there, having fun with a easy meal, [he] was brutally attacked by a person who apparently [came] to the situation after a social media posting,” Moore stated.

Weeks after the South Los Angeles capturing, prosecutors filed homicide expenses towards two individuals, Freddie Lee Trone, 40, and a 17-year-old boy. A 3rd suspect, Shauntel Trone, 38, was charged with theft and being an adjunct after the very fact.

The teenage boy fired the shot that claimed Rock’s life.

Since Rock’s slaying, Sibounheuang stated each day life has turn out to be tough, needing “a lot prayer and religious remedy to achieve the energy to do the straightforward issues.” She stated “the satan is working free on earth” and that “my world is darkish now,” since Rock’s demise.

“I’ll by no means perceive a loss so shut. I really feel so empty” she stated.

Sibounheuang’s emotional tribute follows these from fellow musicians together with Offset, Nicki Minaj, Questlove and D.R.A.M.

Occasions workers writers Kenan Draughorne and Richard Winton contributed to this report.