A version of this article first appeared in the Outlaw Report.

A D.C. rapper was shot and killed Wednesday during an armed robbery while working at a marijuana gifting shop on Georgia Avenue NW.

Surveillance video footage shows two men walking into Hotbox Uptown, guns drawn. A press release from the Metropolitan Police Department says the men demanded property and money. The victims complied, but one of the suspects fired, striking Philip Prendergast, also known as Phil Da Phuture, who was working at the shop at the time. The other victim was not shot and survived the robbery. The suspects then took money and property and fled the scene.

Prendergast, 41, of Silver Spring was transported to the hospital, where he later died. He was the artist behind tracks such as “Stupid Dop Moves” and “Do What I Do.”

Speaking with FOX5’s Shomari Stone, Prendergast’s mother says “he was the most loving person there is, and the best friend you could ever have, the best person you could ever ask for for a friend.”

The suspects got away with $2,500 in cash and $1,900 in cannabis products, according to the incident report. MPD is offering a reward for any information that helps catch the suspects.

This is one of three Hotbox locations in D.C.; the others are in Georgetown and Shaw. The uptown location on Georgia Avenue NW opened about a year ago. 

The shooting comes as the Alcohol Beverage and Cannabis Administration begins to deliver warning letters to gifting shops that are still operating and have not applied to transition to the legal medical market. None of the Hotbox locations are listed as unlicensed applicants looking to transition to the legal market. 

ABCA officials were delivering warning letters to unlicensed establishments near the shooting on Wednesday. It is not known if the location was scheduled to receive a warning letter. Marijuana is legal to grow, use, and possess in small quantities in D.C., but due to congressional interference, the District has been prohibited from setting up a legal recreational market. A gray market, where nonmedical dispensaries sell various items that come with a “gift” of cannabis, have proliferated throughout the District alongside medical dispensaries.

Local officials have pushed in recent years to allow gifting shops to transition to the medical market. Cannabis businesses in both the legal and gray markets, generally, are targets for robbery due to federal law limiting their use of credit cards and banks.