Police say several were injured in a deadly shooting inside the concert venue, where hip-hop artist T.
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Troy Ave has been arrested after the incident where one man was shot dead and four others were left with gunshot injuries following a shooting at a T.I. concert in NY.
How the gunman was able to enter a venue with metal detectors was still being investigated, police said.
The man who died, 33-year-old Ronald McPhatter, was a member of Collins’ entourage and had been there to provide security, according to his family. In the eight-second video, the gunman stood in the middle of the room looking for someone then raised his gun and shot.
AP reports almost 1,000 people were at the venue when Collins’ allegedly entered with a gun drawn and opened fire in front of several people casually standing next to what appeared to be a bar.
Witnesses described a chaotic scene.
There were almost 1,000 people in the venue when the shooting began. A 34-year-old man was shot in the chest and taken to the hospital and a 26-year-old woman was shot in the leg and is in stable condition now. Another bystander, Maggie Heckstall, was shot in the leg, authorities have reported.
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Bratton told the radio station that violence is often part of the world of rap artists and music, saying that rappers are “basically thugs”.
That prompted an angry response from McPhatter’s relatives and a city lawmaker, who derided the comments as insensitive and divisive.
What sparked the violence remains unclear, officials said.
Trying to smooth out the hate-talk of the Police Commissioner, the city’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, said afterward that he believed Bratton had been “talking out of frustration”.
Police arrested 30-year-old Roland Collins on Thursday, a day after the deadly shooting at Irving Plaza, where hip-hop artist T.I. was set to perform. A message left at a phone number listed for him wasn’t immediately returned.
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McPhatter’s brother, Shanduke McPhatter, said his brother “got too much into” the glamour of the hip-hop scene, and it landed him in an environment where alcohol flowed freely and trouble broke out.
