Nicki Minaj’s Father Killed In Hit-And-Run In New York, Police Say

Nicki Minaj, pictured here at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala in New York in May 2019. Police said that the rapper’s father died in a hit-and-run accident over the weekend.

(CNN)Rapper Nicki Minaj’s father has died in a hit-and-run accident, police said.Robert Maraj, 64, was walking in Mineola, Long Island, on Friday at 6:15 p.m. when he was “was struck by a northbound, undescribed, vehicle that left the scene of the accident,” the Nassau County Police Department said in a statement.

Nicki Minaj reveals gender of her newborn baby Maraj was taken to a hospital in critical condition and died Saturday, police said. The homicide squad is investigating.Minaj has not yet made public comments about her father’s death

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