Over the last several months, Chief Keef (pictured, left) has been inadvertently drawn into Chicago’s excessive gun violence epidemic, and sadly one of his sibling has become a victim.

Ulysses “Chris” Gissendanner, III (pictured, right) was shot in the back of the head last week, while on the city’s South Side.

Gissendanner, 19,  lived in the suburbs and aspired to follow in the rap footsteps of  his younger stepbrother. The two became siblings after Keef’s father – Alfonso Cozart—married Gissendanner’s mother— Aridecy Tate—but his link to the teen rapper is not believed to have been a motive in the killing.

Cozart said that even if the fatal shooting wasn’t meant as a form of retaliation against the family, he fears for his son’s safety.

Gissendanner’s had just graduated high school, and was in college and had a job. He was a positive person.

In trying to get his feet wet in the rap game, Gissendanner rhymed under the name “YPN Boomtown” and is said to have had a different style than his stepbrother.