Atlanta rapper Younger Scooter died from a leg harm he suffered whereas fleeing from police on his thirty ninth birthday, in keeping with the Fulton County Medical Examiner.
The rapper, whose actual title is Kenneth Edward Bailey, demise was brought on by a “penetrating injury of the right thigh” brought on by wood fencing or particles, which led to important blood loss, WSB-TV reported, citing the health worker’s workplace.
Younger Scooter, who gained notoriety for collaborations with Future and Gucci Mane, died Friday night time in Grady Marcus Trauma Middle in Atlanta.
Earlier than his demise, police had responded to a house within the southeast a part of Atlanta earlier that night time after receiving a pretend 911 name claiming there was a violent home dispute occurring on the property.
A girl, who refused to provide her title however recognized herself because the “neighborhood watch,” advised the operator she noticed a “girl running outside naked” being fought by one of many guys — earlier than not less than three photographs have been fired, with the bare girl “bleeding profusely” from the pinnacle.
The caller claimed that “seven guys” who usually brandished weapons have been shacked up within the house and offered medicine.
“He’s beating her bloody. He’s dragged her back in the house,” the caller stated, saying she was being held hostage by one of many males “refusing to let her out” with “a child in danger as well.”
Nevertheless, officers solely discovered Younger Scooter and one other man inside — no girl or little one.
One of many males allegedly slammed the entrance door within the officer’s face, and each of them fled out the again of the home, WSB-TV reported.
Because the rapper ran from the house, he hopped a fence and sustained the deadly leg harm both on the leap or within the wooded space behind the home.
The person who ran with Younger Scooter, who was not recognized, later returned house and was not accused of wrongdoing. It stays unclear why the boys fled from police.
After information broke of the rapper’s demise, reviews started circulating that he had been shot, which the Fulton County Medical Examiner and Atlanta Police Division confirmed have been false.
“While we understand that many people are saddened by his passing, it is important to recognize that Atlanta police officers neither discharged their firearms nor used any force against Mr. Bailey,” Atlanta police stated in a press release on Tuesday.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was known as in to steer the probe into the bogus 911 name.
Nevertheless, the Atlanta Police Division introduced on X Tuesday night time that 31-year-old Demetria Spence was arrested in connection to the pretend name that led to the rapper’s demise.
“Demetria Spence was taken into custody by the Atlanta Police Department and charged with Transmitting a False Public Alarm under O.C.G.A 16-10-28, subsection (d)(2) ‘If serious bodily harm or death results from the response of a public safety agency,’” the division wrote.
Younger Scooter burst into the hip-hop scene after he signed to Future’s Freebandz file label in 2012.
The next yr, he collaborated with Gucci Mane on the “Zone 6” hitmaker’s “Free Bricks 2” mixtape.
His 2013 mixtape, “Street Lottery,” additionally featured appearances from Future, Gucci Mane, Younger Dolph and Chief Keef.
