NEW YORK — Police in New York City have arrested a man in connection with the beating death of a pioneering rock musician in the Bronx.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sharief Bodden, 29, was charged Friday in the killing of Peter Forrest, a 64-year-old Bronx resident, who under the stage name P. Fluid had been a frontman for 24\/7 Spyz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Bronx band was part of a wave of Black-led rock groups, including Living Colour and Fishbone, that emerged in the 1980s, melding elements of heavy metal, funk, R&B, punk and other genres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among the band’s signature songs was was a remake of Kool & the Gang\u2019s \u201cJungle Boogie.\u201d Forrest quit the band during its 1990 tour with Jane\u2019s Addiction, according to<\/a> Rolling Stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Black Rock Coalition, a New York-based artists\u2019 collective, remembered Forrest as an \u201cessential chapter to an essential band\u201d in the history of the group, which was formed by Vernon Reid of Living Colour and other Black musicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFluid was one of the most creative, charismatic, energetic and powerful frontmen in the business,\u201d the organization wrote on its Facebook page<\/a>. \u201cHis stage presence and dynamic personality were matched only by a rare few.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Police say Forrest was found unconscious and beaten inside the private ambulette bus he drove on Monday. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and the medical examiner’s office determined he had blunt force injuries to his head and torso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n