Recently sprung ex-con accused of killing rocker Peter Forrest, leaving body in Bronx ambulette

The 29-year-old antheral accused of killing groundbreaking rocker Peter Forrest and leaving his assemblage successful the backmost of an ambulette successful a distant conception of the Bronx is an ex-con who was released from situation past summer, officials said Saturday.

Sharief Bodden is facing execution charges for beating Forrest, 64, to death wrong the backmost of Forrest’s ambulette Monday greeting portion Bodden was wearing a court-ordered ankle show from a erstwhile attempted-robbery conviction. Cops person besides charged Bodden with manslaughter, cause possession and weapons possession. A Bronx Criminal Court justice ordered Bodden held without bail astatine his arraignment Saturday afternoon.

The accused slayer served 4 years successful authorities situation for a 2017 carjacking successful the Bronx, yet pleading blameworthy successful the case, according to authorities situation records and instrumentality enforcement sources.

On June 26, 2017, Bodden and 2 accomplices took a livery cab from 174th St. and Jerome Ave successful Morris Heights to different determination successful the Bronx, wherever 1 of the men placed the operator successful a chokehold earlier dragging him retired of the car. The trio took disconnected successful the vehicle, but cops rapidly apprehended them, the sources said.

When Bodden was released successful July 2024, helium was considered a “violent offender” and a justice ordered that helium deterioration an ankle monitor.

The show yet led cops to Bodden successful transportation with Forrest’s death. Once Bodden was identified arsenic the suspect, investigators tracked his ankle show to a determination connected Staten Island wherever they arrested him. Cops recovered much than one-eighth of an ounce of ace cocaine connected him, according to the transgression complaint.

P. Fluid (aka Peter Forrest) performs with the set 24-7 Spyz successful an undated photo. (Photo by Michael Uhll /Redferns via Getty Images)

Bodden’s rap expanse besides includes arrests for reckless endangerment, positive turnstile jumping, instrumentality enforcement sources said.

Forrest, who was known arsenic P. Fluid arsenic a subordinate the South Bronx-based set 24-7 Spyz, was recovered look down in a excavation of humor successful the backmost of the ambulette, which was recovered parked astatine the country of Castle Hill Ave. and Hart St. connected the borderline of Westchester Creek and Castle Hill Park, according to police.

He was discovered by a co-worker from Marquis Ambulette, who became acrophobic erstwhile Forrest didn’t marque a fewer scheduled pickups and wasn’t answering his phone.

When the co-worker tracked down the ambulette done the vehicle’s GPS, helium recovered a model breached and Forrest dormant successful the back.

Sharief Bodden is pictured during his arraignment successful the Bronx connected Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. Bodden is charged with the execution of Peter Forrest, the erstwhile vocalist of the set 24-7 Spyz. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)

Video footage obtained by News12 showed a antheral exiting the driver’s broadside door of the ambulette astatine astir 8:45 a.m. and entering a waiting car, which past fled the scene.

Forrest was discovered dormant astir 30 minutes later.

Investigators are moving connected the mentation that Forrest caught Bodden breaking into the ambulette, and judge Bodden then, successful a rage, pummeled Forrest to death, and placed his bloodied assemblage successful the backmost of the ambulette, earlier ditching the ride, instrumentality enforcement sources said.

According to the city’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Forrest was beaten to death, suffering blunt interaction injuries of the caput and torso.

Bodden struck Forrest “several times astir the head, look and body,” leaving him with, “multiple blunt-force trauma injuries,” according to the transgression complaint.

A motive for the sidesplitting was not instantly disclosed.

Video shows a fig leaving the ambulette (not pictured) parked successful a distant country of the Bronx wherever the driver, a groundbreaking musician, was recovered beaten to decease soon after. Above is an ambulette parked extracurricular Marquis Ambulette’s office successful Inwood, Manhattan. (Google)

Forrest archetypal roseate to acclaim successful the 1980s and ’90s with the set 24-7 Spyz, which mixed metal, hardcore, punk and funk. He was besides a founding subordinate of the Black Rock Coalition, according to his erstwhile longtime woman Chiedza Makonnen, 55, who called Forrest her “first love.”

“Music was his beingness and advancing Black stone was his life,” Makonnen antecedently told the Daily News. “He was passionate astir that. He truly helped pave that roadworthy for a batch of radical to recognize that Black musicians aren’t conscionable rappers oregon R&B oregon soul, we’re rockers, too.”

The set 24-7 Spyz, featuring Anthony Johnson, Jimi Hazel, Peter “P. Fluid” Forrest (2nd from right) and Rick Skatore, astatine the New York Music Awards astatine the Beacon Theater connected March 31, 1990. (Photo by Ebet Roberts/Redferns via Getty Images)

After leaving 24-7 Spyz, Forrest formed P. Fluid and the P. Fluid Foundation, past aboriginal rejoined 24-7 Spyz temporarily earlier forming a caller band, BlkVampires, performing arsenic Forrest Thinner. The set released a opus successful 2015 called “Eric Garner.”

Forrest’s last philharmonic project, BlkVampiresX, was his archetypal solo act.

Workers astatine Marquis Ambulette declined to remark connected Forrest’s murder.