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Man (Rapper) fatally shot at entrance to Beverly Center [Updated]
LA Times ^ | 5/18/09 | staff

Posted on 05/19/2009 8:51:13 AM PDT by pissant

[Updated at 6:30 p.m. The man shot at the Beverly Center mall this afternoon was identified as Atlanta-based Dolla, whose real name is Roderick Anthony Burton II, according to his publicist, Sue Vannasing. She said Dolla was shot in the head around 3:10 p.m. while he and another rapper, D.J. Shabbazz, waited in the area after shopping at the popular Westside mall. A friend who was with the rapper at Beverly Center also confirmed his identity to The Times.

About two hours later, Los Angeles police detained a “person of interest” as he attempted to board a plane out of Los Angeles International Airport. The man allegedly drove his silver Mercedes SUV from Beverly Center to the airport. Vannasing said Dolla had gotten into an altercation with other passengers on a flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles, but it's unclear if that was related to the violence.]

[Updated at 5:15 p.m.: Police have arrested one "person of interest" in connection with the shooting but were looking for a second suspect.]

(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...


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Another one bites the dust. I'm saddened.
1 posted on 05/19/2009 8:51:13 AM PDT by pissant
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A waste of a rare talent.


2 posted on 05/19/2009 8:51:57 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: pissant

You know, I played drums in Rock Bands for 30 years. Sometimes there would be three bands on the bill. I can’t recall an instance where we shot at each other.


3 posted on 05/19/2009 8:52:59 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: pissant

4 posted on 05/19/2009 8:54:18 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: massgopguy

Yeah, in rock bands you had stuff like Dave Davies throwing a cymbal at another Kink... :) (or someone threw it at Dave?)


5 posted on 05/19/2009 8:54:33 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: pissant

I am shocked that this could happen in the Rap community!


6 posted on 05/19/2009 8:55:08 AM PDT by Holicheese (He stopped the War on Terror and started a War on Patriotism!)
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To: pissant; a fool in paradise

Dog bites man? Stop the presses!


7 posted on 05/19/2009 8:55:52 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: pissant

He was turning his life around, for sure!


8 posted on 05/19/2009 8:56:46 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: pissant

Dolla done someone wrong!....


9 posted on 05/19/2009 8:58:42 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Joe 6-pack

Harsh!


10 posted on 05/19/2009 8:58:59 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

He be dissed


11 posted on 05/19/2009 8:59:45 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

...according to his publicist...

a Man of Letters, to be sure.


12 posted on 05/19/2009 8:59:49 AM PDT by Paisan
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Dolla Gone to Hella!


13 posted on 05/19/2009 9:00:08 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Paisan

LOL


14 posted on 05/19/2009 9:00:21 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

I hate Rap too, but it seems a bit extreme to shoot the guy...


15 posted on 05/19/2009 9:00:56 AM PDT by trailboss800
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To: NativeNewYorker

I guess some Dolla’s were meant to be wasted.


16 posted on 05/19/2009 9:01:03 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: pissant; a fool in paradise
Tomorrow's Wall Street Journal headline:

Dolla Down!

17 posted on 05/19/2009 9:01:50 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: pissant

• From the Rapper Million $$ Bill....

Kill the Rapper,Kill him dead
Shoot the scoundrel in the head

Crush his throat with his gold chain
Watch the video of his pain.

Hate the bastard, the illigit
Mouthing nonsensense, verbal shit

The story here that we must tell
Let the sob rot in hell


18 posted on 05/19/2009 9:04:12 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Crucify ! Crucify ! Crucify him!!)
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To: pissant

“Roderick Anthony Burton II” sounds like an old Jackie Gleason character - Reggie Van Gleason III.

These guys and their names are too funny. “Notorious B.I.G., 50 Cent, Ole Dirty Bastard...”

This chap was a day late and a Dolla short?


19 posted on 05/19/2009 9:09:04 AM PDT by Argus (We've gone downtown to Clown Town, and that's where we'll be living from now on..)
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To: pissant
Someone may have done the gene pool a favor...


20 posted on 05/19/2009 9:09:47 AM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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