Melvin Doyle the father of up-and-coming Chicago rapper Mello Buckzz has been charged with the illegal sale of firearms despite a mass shooting at her album release party on July 2, 2025 that left four dead and 14 others injured.
Days after the bullets tore into a crowd outside the Artis Lounge in River North on July 2, 2025 when the club was supposed to have been celebrating Mello Buckzz’s latest mixtape. Doyle, 45, kept selling guns on the streets of Chicago, according to prosecutors. He sold the 13 firearms to an undercover informant between May 20 and July 7, according to a federal complaint. One of those sales occurred shortly after the devastating shooting outside of his daughter’s event.
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And despite the violence that spoiled his own child’s party, Doyle, a convicted felon, appeared in no mood to stop, authorities said. He has a rap sheet that includes convictions for attempted murder, in 1998; manufacturing and distribution of drugs, in 2003; and trafficking heroin, in 2006 each of which legally prevent him from owning or dealing in firearms. Still, prosecutors say, he ran guns as if nothing had changed.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) began investigating Doyle in May 2025 on information that he was trafficking in firearms. Federal agents then arranged and recorded several transactions using confidential informants with him including one at his home on South Martin Luther King Drive. Each sale was recorded both audibly and visually, they say.
No arrests made in incident at time of press, and investigators have not linked Doyle’s guns to the deadly July 2, 2025 shooting. What the authorities do know is that around 1:30 a.m., at least two defendants fired from a dark vehicle on partygoers outside the club in what detectives suspect was possibly a retaliatory strike, three of the officials said. The assailants ran from the scene, but devastation followed, with the community reeling.
None of the criminal allegations against her father have been linked to Mello Buckzz herself, but the news looms heavily over the artist’s ascendence. Her music had been catching on, and this release party was supposed to be a moment of triumph, not one of tragedy and scandal.
The streets of Chicago are familiar with gun violence, but when it strikes this close and from within, it hits differently. Police have also put up a $10,000 reward for anyone providing information that could lead to the arrest of the men who shot him, even as Doyle has now had his own day in court.
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