Rapper POORSTACY Dies in Apparent Suicide at 26

Rapper POORSTACY, whose real name was Carlito Milfort Jr., died at age 26 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound early on November 29 at a hotel in Boca Raton, Florida. The incident occurred in a room at the Boca By the Sea Hotel on North Federal Highway, where he had been staying for about 10 days with his young child and the child's mother, Nicole Grikstas.

Police responded to a 911 call from hotel staff around 6 a.m. and found Milfort with a fatal head wound from a Taurus handgun. He was transported to Delray Medical Center as a trauma alert but was later pronounced dead. Authorities recovered drugs and paraphernalia, including cocaine, Xanax, and MDMA, along with the child's toys and food scattered in the room. No other injuries were reported.

According to a police affidavit detailing Grikstas's interview hours after the incident, the couple had checked into the hotel about a week earlier. Over the course of their stay, they consumed drugs in the presence of their toddler, police said. On the night of November 28, they returned to the room around 11 p.m. and used cocaine. Grikstas reported taking an MDMA tablet around 3 a.m. the following morning.