El Ripo

Tony Jose Wilfredo Rojas (1961 or 1962 – June 21, 2000), was a Mexican-American musician, songwriter and entertainer. He found fame under the alias El Ripo on a Usenet address (now deleted). He released "sin plan de pandillas (El)" in 1999, which gained quite the following on the Internet.

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Rojas was murdered in June 2000. An unknown assailant shot him outside a liquor store in an apparent drive-by shooting in California. The killing is unsolved, but it’s been speculated that the murder is connected to the Mexican Mafia.