Lil Ronnie’s Baby Mother Reacts After Carrying The Pallbearer At Her Daughters Funeral

North Texas rapper Ronnie “G$ Lil Ronnie” Sibley and his 5-year-old daughter R’Mani Sibley touched the lives of others and made the world a brighter place, family and friends said at their funeral on Thursday morning, March 20.

Sibley and his daughter were killed March 3 in a shooting at a Forest Hill car wash.

Life-sized photos of the Sibleys stood inside the entrance of Great Commission Baptist Church in south Fort Worth — Sibley holding baby R’Mani in his arms, an older R’Mani with a bouquet of red roses, a recent photo of the two taken at a Valentine’s with Dad event at R’Mani’s school with the words “Always in our hearts.”

Many attendees wore pink, R’Mani’s favorite color. Others wore T-shirts that said “Chuckie and Chink,” nicknames for the rapper and his daughter.

Forest Hill Mayor Pro Tem Keith R. Smith said he’s worn his bright pink blazer to every official event since the shooting.

Smith, a career educator, taught Ronnie Sibley for a short time when the rapper was in the fourth grade at Morningside Elementary School in Fort Worth. He remembers that Sibley liked to write.

“He was a thinker,” Smith said. “He had a good heart. He was a good-hearted little guy.”

Brian Gaiters told attendees that Sibley had a charismatic personality and a smile that would light up the room. The two met when they were in middle school and remained friends for over 25 years.

The last time they were together, just a couple weeks before Sibley’s death, they reminisced about the sixth grade, Allen Iverson shoes and going to an apartment on the Southside to get their hair braided.

“It’s not too many, you know, come from where we come from, that make it out and succeed,” Gaiters said. “Chuckie was one of those that succeeded for sure.”

Gaiters now works in law enforcement as an investigator. His unit responded to Slappy’s Express Car Wash in Forest Hill after Sibley and R’Mani were fatally shot. His commanding officer told him to stay back at the office, but Gaiters said he insisted on going.

“Chuckie and Chink, you all will be missed,” Gaiters said. “Heaven definitely gained some angels with you all.”

Sibley’s girlfriend and R’Mani’s mother, Shamon Jones, didn’t speak at the funeral but shared heartfelt words in the printed program.

“You were my sunshine, my little joy, my everything,” she said in a note addressed to R’Mani. “Your laughter was the sweetest music, and your smile could brighten even the darkest days.”

R’mani Sibley, 5, was killed in a shooting in Forest Hill along with her father, Ronnie Sibley.

Jones wrote about meeting Sibley at at Morningside Middle School, and said his “smile was bright as the sun.”

“Your memory is a gentle reminder that love, no matter how brief in physical form, leaves an everlasting imprint on the heart,” Jones said of Sibley.

Sibley is survived by Jones and his oldest daughter, Iyanna Sibley.

Two suspects, 24-year-old Adonis Robinson and 21-year-old Jakobie Russell, have been arrested and charged with capital murder in the case.