American rapper Nicki Minaj's 64-year-old father - Robert Maraj has been killed by a hit-and-run driver in New York, police said.
Robert Maraj was walking along a road in Mineola on Long Island at 6:15 p.m Friday when he was hit by a car that kept going, said Nassau County police.
Maraj was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead on Saturday. Police are asking any witnesses to the fatal crash to come forward.
The statement issued by the police did not specify Maraj's relationship to Minaj, but a police spokesman confirmed he was her father.
Nicki Minaj, 38, was born Onika Tanya Maraj in Trinidad and was raised in the New York City borough of Queens. She has not made any public statement about her father's death so far.
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