Is up-and-coming Atlanta rapper Dolla dead and if so, what happened to him?
Up-and-coming Atlanta rapper Dolla was shot and killed in an altercation outside a shopping mall in Los Angeles on Monday, May 18th. He was 21 years old. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Dolla was gunned down while he waited at the Beverly Center’s mall valet with rappers DJ Shabbazz and Scrapp DeLeon. Dolla’s publicist said that before the shooting, a man and woman were trailing the rapper. Police have “two persons of interest” in custody; cops picked up one man at the ticketing area of the Los Angeles International Airport with a gun in his possession. As of this morning, the man in custody, Aubrey Berry, has been charged with murder, TMZ reports. Dolla was in Los Angeles to continue work on his debut album, A Dolla & A Dream. Born Roderick Anthony Burton II in Chicago, the rapper’s family relocated to Atlanta from L.A. when he was five after his father’s suicide. First a member of the Elektra-signed Da Razkalz Kru, Dolla made his way up the Atlanta hip-hop scene and wa
Dolla, born Roderick Anthony Burton II, was gunned down while waiting in the valet area of the Beverly Center shopping center on Monday, May 18, 2009. Reports say he was shot and killed in an altercation. He was accompanied by another local rapper, D.J. Shabbazz, and a fellow Jive Recording artist, Scrapp DeLeon. No arrests were made, but police were questioning a man found hours later with a gun in the ticketing area of the Los Angeles International Airport, the Associated Press reported. Police said the man remained in custody early Tuesday for questioning. He is believed to have dropped off a rental car before he was found at the airport with a handgun, airport police spokesman Sgt. Jim Holcomb told the AP. Sources: http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2009/05/18/rapper_dolla_shot.
