What did Quez2rr do? Details explored as Georgia rapper sentenced over 2023 incident
Georgia rapper Quez2rr, whose real name is Terrell Monquez Searcy, was sentenced to 66 months (five and a half years) in prison and three years of supervised release on June 4, 2025. The sentence stemmed from an incident where the rapper had brought a machine gun into a hospital's maternity ward.
On August 17, 2023, a nurse in Piedmont Walton Hospital, Monroe, Georgia, saw Quez2rr with a weapon outside the labor and delivery unit. After she alerted security, he was interrogated and admitted that he had hidden a handgun under a couch cushion.
According to Complex's June 9, 2025, report, it was a Glock Model 17 9mm handgun with a 30-round extended magazine and a "switch" on the back, which modified it into an illegally made machine gun. The Monroe Police Department later discovered that the weapon had been stolen from Walton County, Georgia.
Quez2rr held a pistol with a machine gun conversion device in the music video of his 2023 track, Traffic
According to HotNewHipHop's June 8, 2025, report, after the rapper pleaded guilty to machine gun possession charges in March 2024, the authorities looked into his music. They found out that he had rapped about reportedly using guns in his song, Traffic. Quez2rr also appeared in the music video with a pistol and a machine gun conversion device.
"I put a switch on the back of my Glock, just to clean up the street when it's time for that action," the rapper rapped in the song.
Police officers also investigated Quez2rr's Instagram account. They discovered that he had stayed in touch with a female officer from the Clayton County Police Department, asking her about active warrants and homicide investigations from January to March 2023.
According to Fox 5 Atlanta's June 6, 2025, report, the female officer told the rapper that his friend had passed away in a homicide case. A few days later, a drive-by shooting occurred in DeKalb County, in which four people, including two minors, were shot.
On February 11, 2025, authorities searched the rapper's residence in McDonough with a search warrant. They found multiple firearms, which were connected to various shootings in the area, including the DeKalb County shooting.
According to the media outlet, Thomas Crawford, the acting assistant special agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), released a statement saying that ATF is "aggressively" working to remove machine gun conversion devices from their communities as these weapons increase gun violence.
"Machine gun conversion devices are fueling a deadly uptick in gun violence, turning routine firearms into weapons of war. This case is yet another example of why ATF is committed to aggressively identifying and removing these illegal devices from our communities," Crawford stated.
According to a press release from the U.S.Attorney'ss Office for the Middle District of Georgia, the City of Monroe Police Department, Clayton County Police Department, the McDonough Police Department, Henry CountySheriff'ss Office, the Dekalb County Police Department, and the Piedmont Walton Hospital Security Department assisted ATF with the investigation oQuez2rr's's charges.
