Shootings, Rapper | featured news

A multi-state manhunt was under way on Friday for the men who shot dead an aspiring rapper as he drove on the Las Vegas Strip in a Maserati, touching off a fiery crash that killed a cab driver and his passenger.

The autopsy report issued about the 1997 mysterious killing of Notorious B.I.G., whose real name is Christopher Wallace, has been released and reveals that the famed East Coast rapper was shot four times and that one of them was fatal.

U.S. rapper Slim Dunkin was Friday shot and killed at an Atlanta music studio, WSB-TV reported, citing both police and the performer's attorney. Atlanta Police Department spokesman Maj. Keith Meadows said Dunkin, whose real name was Mario Hamilton, was shot and killed outside a music studio in the 1000 block of Memorial Drive on Friday night. He was at the studio to shoot a music video.

Ortega Devon Henderson, an up-and-coming rapper who traveled in the same orbit as fellow artist Nelly, died Wednesday of injuries suffered May 16 in a shooting in Wellston, his friends and family said.