A search was underway in California on Wednesday (Oct 6) for the gunman wished for killing Half Ounce, the third rapper to be fatally shot in Los Angeles County in lower than a month.
Half Ounce, whose actual identify is Latauriisha O’Brien, was discovered shot to demise on Monday in the town’s Koreatown neighborhood, Los Angeles Police stated Tuesday. He had been strolling dwelling with a buddy after they have been approached by a darkish SUV and a passenger all of a sudden opened fireplace on them from contained in the car, sources advised Fox 11.
The 32-year-old rapper was nonetheless on the phone with his pregnant wife because the gunfire erupted. Police stated she heard the violence unfold.
Authorities “responded to numerous radio calls of shots fired, with a man screaming” round 11.30pm. When they arrived on the web site of the capturing, they found Half Ounce wounded outdoors an residence constructing. He was pronounced lifeless on the scene, police stated.
He was a father to 2 sons, aged 9 months and two years outdated, in addition to an eight-year-old daughter, and family members additionally advised NBC4 that his fourth baby is due in March of subsequent yr.
O’Brien’s buddy reportedly fled the scene amid the gunfire and authorities are nonetheless working to trace that particular person down. Officers are additionally on the hunt for the suspected shooter, who sped south following the deadly confrontation. He has not been recognized.
Half Ounce’s demise marked the third deadly capturing involving a rapper in Los Angeles County over the previous few weeks.
On Sept 12, rapper PnB Rock, whose actual identify was Rakim Allen, was fatally gunned down throughout a botched theft inside Roscoe’s House of Chicken & Waffles in South Los Angeles. Authorities stated the suspect was after his jewellery on the time.
Just greater than two weeks later, Kee Riches, 23, whose actual identify was Kian Nellum, was shot and killed in Compton alongside with 29-year-old Robert Leflore Jr.
Authorities don’t consider the shootings are linked at the moment. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
