Rapper Troy Ave, born Roland Collins, was taken into custody on Thursday and is facing attempted murder and weapon charges, according to a police spokesman. McPhatter and Collins were childhood friends. Detectives are waiting for ballistics evidence to see if the rapper will face additional charges, according to ABC.
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One of those injured, Christopher Vinson, was shot in the chest on the venue’s ground level after a bullet travelled through the floor, police said.
Three men and one woman who were shot.
Police investigating a deadly shooting at a packed hip-hop concert in NY arrested a Brooklyn rap artist, saying surveillance footage showed him walking through the venue firing a gun.
After Collins fired the first show, a gunfight ensued between him and rival rapper Maino, who had just finished performing onstage.
The shooting was allegedly due to a beef between two rival crews, reported the New York Daily News.
“This is still an ongoing investigation”, she said, noting that there are pending charges.
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”.
T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, is one of the leading forces in trap music, a style of hip-hop from the US south that emphasizes aggressive lyricism and 1980s-style drum machines. “There are some rap artists and folks in the hip-hop culture doing wonderful, good things for the world”.
City Councilman Jumaane Williams, a Brooklyn Democrat, commented that people do not use the same language when white individuals are involved in such violent acts.
Edgar McPhatter’s brother is Shanduke McPhatter, a former gangster who now serves as the executive director of the anti-violence group Gangstas Making Astronomical Community Changes.
The dead man’s mother, Rose, said her son and the suspected shooter had known each other since school. “I changed my state of mind”. “It was insane. It’s insane more people didn’t get shot”. It’s also still unclear if Troy meant to shoot and kill McPhatter, who according to Banga’s mother, has known her son since junior high school.
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“My heart is heavy today”, the rapper, whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., wrote in an Instagram upload on Thursday. But it is depressing that the United States still seems to accord more value to the lives and injuries of those proximal to its stars than the many others coping with what has become a national epidemic of mass gun violence. “My heartfelt condolences to the family that suffered the loss & my payers to all those injured”.
