The 36-year-old rapper was in a cookie shop, where he had his habits, when an armed man fired on him. The font specified do not have information about the suspect for the moment.
Le Monde with AP and AFP
Has it been caught up in his past? The American rapper Young Dolph was shot down, Wednesday, November 17, while he was inside a cookies store in Memphis, Tennessee.
“On November 17, 2021 at 12:24, Memphis police officers were called on the scene of a shooting” and “a male victim was located and declared dead on the spot,” said The Memphis police in a statement. “Preliminary information indicates that the victim is Adolph Robert Thornton Jr.”, better known as Young Dolph scene, said the authorities.
Young Dolph, 36, born in Chicago and raised in Memphis, had just entered the shop of Cookies Makeda, where he had his habits, when an armed man arose and shot him, reports the press local. The police specified do not have information about the suspect for the moment.
already targeted by two shootings in the past
The rapper became known with tubes like Major, and his album Rich Slavé released in 2020 had been a nice place in the Billboard 200 musical rating. In his words, Young Dolph evoked his life in Memphis and the have been a drug trafficker. He has recently played at a concert at the University of Memphis and played during the half time of a game of the NBA Basketball team of Memphis Grizzlies.
The artist had repeated in 2017 to two shootings: one in Charlotte, in North Carolina, during which his car had suffered a hundred shots according to the American media; The other in Los Angeles where he had been reached by three bullets.
Many celebrities in the rap world expressed their condolences on social networks, The American rapper Gucci Mane claiming” devastated “
A large crowd gathered near the shop after the shootout. At a press conference on Wednesday night, the director of the MEMPHIS police, Cerelyn Davis, asked the public to stay calm and recommended residents to stay at home for the evening. She did not specify whether the police thought that other shootings also on Wednesday were related to the murder of rapper.