Forest Hill police release names of suspects wanted in killings of G$ Lil Ronnie, daughter
Forest Hill police released the names and photos of two suspects they’re searching for in connection with the killings of North Texas rapper Ronnie “G$ Lil Ronnie” Sibley and his 5-year-old daughter, R’mani Sibley.
“Public enemy number one, Adonis Robinson, who’s also a registered sex offender. Public enemy number two, Jakobie Russell, who’s on the run,” Forest Hill Police Chief David Hernandez said at a news conference at City Hall on Wednesday afternoon. “They’re scared, they’re cowards, they’re hiding. We ask the public, please let us know where they’re at.”
Robinson is 25, and Russell is 21. Police have not commented on a motive for the shooting.
Investigators have said the suspects were driving a white four-door Kia. Police revealed Wednesday that officers found the car and investigators have processed it for evidence.
Robinson was released from a Texas prison in August, authorities said. He registered as a sex offender after he was accused of trying to sexually assault a jogger near Marine Creek Lake in Fort Worth in 2019, according to the Star-Telegram’s archives. The woman told police that Robinson attacked her from behind, began hitting her and threatened to beat her unconscious if she didn’t stop screaming, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
“She continued fighting and screaming while he tried to pull her jogging shorts down,” the affidavit stated. “She believed his intent was to sexually assault her.” The suspect saw a good Samaritan coming to help the woman and ran away, according to Fort Worth police.
Fort Worth police said Robinson was identified from DNA on a phone charger that he dropped at the scene of the attempted sexual assault.
The other suspect in the shooting Russell, has prior convictions for assault with bodily injury, assault of a pregnant person, and unlawful carrying of a weapon, according to police.
Forest Hill police said they have obtained warrants on capital murder charges for both suspects, who investigators say ambushed and shot the father and daughter on Monday morning, March 3, at Slappy’s Express Car Wash, at 6500 Forest Hill Drive.
Surveillance video from the car wash’s security camera does not include audio but appears to show that Ronnie Sibley was vacuuming his car, a maroon Dodge Challenger, about 10:40 a.m. when two men approached him and began chasing him and shooting.
Sibley ran across the lot, behind some other cars parked in the car wash bays and behind a dumpster while trying to evade the gunmen, the footage shows. The video ends after he is apparently shot and stumbles and collapses in the parking lot.
R’mani Sibley, an elementary school student in Crowley, was found inside her father’s car.
A GoFundMe account is raising money for funeral and household expenses.
“On March 3rd, a senseless act of gun violence took the lives of a devoted father and his precious 5-year-old daughter, leaving a mother and family devastated beyond words,” the GoFundMe description says. “In the wake of this unimaginable tragedy, the mother is left not only grieving the loss of her beloved daughter and partner but also struggling to support her household during this difficult time.”
Pastor Rodney McIntosh with Violence Intervention and Prevention (VIP) Fort Worth, spoke on behalf of R’mani’s mother at a news conference with other community leaders at a Fort Worth church on Tuesday.
“The mother wants everyone to know that she is heartbroken and she is grieving,” he said.
Before the shooting, the girl’s mother had dropped her off with Sibley, McIntosh said. The father and his daughter had spent the weekend at Great Wolf Lodge to celebrate her cousin’s birthday, he said.
“This is about a mother who is grieving the death of a 5-year-old child,” McIntosh said. “If we’re going to do anything as a community, let’s make sure that we come together to stand behind them.”
Sibley also has a 12-year-old daughter who is mourning the loss of her father and sister, McIntosh said.
Sibley’s aunt Stella Houston told reporters that he was cleaning out his car when “somebody came through shooting and killed him and the baby ... He was a family man and he was going around rapping, OK? Why would you target him? ... He didn’t bother nobody.”
The killings on Monday occurred in the third fatal shooting in less than two weeks in the city, a suburb south of Fort Worth with a population of about 14,000 people.
On Feb. 21, a former employee shot and killed two men at a car dealership, RK Auto Sales, on Mansfield Highway, police have said. The suspect in that case has been arrested.
On the night of Feb. 22, a 36-year-old mother of two was killed in the back yard of her home when a stray bullet hit her. Hernandez said on Wednesday that an arrest has not been made in the stray bullet case.
Forest Hill had no homicides in 2024, according to the city’s police department.
“We were crime free completely last year, no murders in our city for one whole year, and then to have three different occasions back to back, we just have to all stand together,” Forest Hill Mayor Stephanie Boardingham said at the news conference in Fort Worth on Tuesday.
With rising gun violence, “we’re going to put our foot down now because we can’t keep doing this,” she said. “We can’t keep burying our children.”
Hernandez said the three shootings that have happened in Forest Hill this year are isolated incidents.
“We are a safe community,” he said. “The Sheriff’s Department has reached out to us, and we are working on a plan to increase patrols in the area.”
Police ask anyone with information about the whereabouts of Robinson and Russell to contact the Forest Hill Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division at 817-531-5250 (Option 5) or by email at policeinvestigations@foresthilltx.org.
Hernandez thanked the Fort Worth Police Department Tactical Intelligence and Surveillance Team and Gang Unit for providing investigators to help with the case and work to find the suspects. The Department of Public Safety’s Texas Rangers division, Everman police, Mansfield police, Kennedale police and the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office also have assisted.
“We are confident the employees acted quickly in this incident, as with all incidents. I want to thank all first responders, law enforcement agencies, and all staff for their hard work during this incident,” Boardingham said on Wednesday. “With our partner law enforcement agencies, we will continue to work on this investigation until justice is served.”
Deion Roblow, a Forest Hill resident who has lived in the area since the 1990s, said that the crime is “frustrating.” He said he was coming out of a store nearby at the time of Monday’s shooting and he did not hear the gunshots but saw people running and said it was “frightening.”
Roblow said that he does not go to the car wash because it is always crowded. “I knew something like that was gonna happen because it’s just so many people up there,” he said.
He added that some community members did not want the car wash to open in that location.
A Slappy’s Car Wash spokesperson wrote in a statement that the company’s employees would be praying for the victims and their families. “We are shocked, appalled and deeply troubled by the senseless and violent events that occurred today. Right now, there are more questions than answers,” the spokesperson wrote on Monday.
Roblow has a picture in his front yard of his son’s high school graduation. He said that as a father, he is concerned about the shooting, “but hopefully this will pass, too.”
A 31-year-old woman who lives in a house across from the car wash said she heard multiple gunshots. “I looked outside and I saw people ducking down, and I closed the door,” she said. “It was terrifying.”
The woman, who moved into the area 10 years ago in her grandmother’s house, said that with the recent gun violence in the area, she does not feel safe.
This story was originally published March 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM.