Louisiana-räppäri Hurricane Chris, oikealta nimeltään Christopher Dooley, 31, on pidätetty perjantaina toisen asteen murhasta.
Räppäriltä oli hänen omien sanojensa mukaan yritetty ryöstää ajoneuvoa, jolloin hän oli joutunut ampumaan ryöstäjää itsepuolustukseksi. Vakavasti loukkaantunut mies kiidätettiin sairaalaan, jossa hän myöhemmin kuoli saamiinsa vammoihin.
Videotallenteet osoittivat, että kyseessä ei luultavasti ollut kyse itsepuolustuksesta. Räppärin ajoneuvo oli myös merkitty varastetuksi Texasissa. Lue lisää alapuolelta.
NBC:
Louisiana rapper Hurricane Chris, whose real name is Christopher Dooley, has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with a shooting that took place in Shreveport, La., early Friday, local police confirmed to Variety.
Dooley — best known for his 2007 hit “A Bay Bay” — was arrested Friday morning and charged with one count of second-degree murder and one count of illegal possession of stolen things after the shooting, which took place shortly after 1 a.m. at a convenience store in the city.
According to the police report, officers arrived to find a man who had been shot multiple times; he died after being taken to a local hospital.
The investigators said that Dooley claimed the shooting was in self-defense, after an alleged struggle over a vehicle that he claimed was his but which officers later learned did not belong to him and was stolen from its owner in Texas.
Video footage of the incident also led detectives to believe that Dooley did not act in self-defense.
The victim’s identity had not been released at the time of this article’s publication.
