American rapper PnB Rock was shot and killed by an unknown person on Monday afternoon inside a Los Angeles restaurant, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) reported.
The artist, whose real name was Rakim Allen, was eating with his girlfriend in a restaurant belonging to the well-known fast food chain Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles, located in the south of the city, when an armed man approached their table and he asked that they will give you your jewelry.
When the rapper refused, the man fired “several shots,” LAPD Officer Kelly Muniz said.
“We are checking the audio from the security camera recording to determine exactly what words were exchanged prior to the event and to identify the killer,” Muniz explained.
The shooter exited through a side door into a parking lot near the fast food restaurant and fled in a car.
according to the newspaperLos Angeles Timesthe police examine the security cameras of businesses near the restaurant to try to get a more reliable picture of the killer and find out where he was. PnB Rock, 30, was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died 45 minutes after being shot at around 2pm local time (9pm GMT).
Before the shooting, the rapper’s girlfriend had posted a photo with him on her social networks, which also included their whereabouts.
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PnB Rock, born in Philadelphia in 1991, had managed to carve out a place in the competitive American hip-hop scene after his success flee (2015), which would happen Every day we switched (2016), a song he sang with rapper YFN Lucci and had a great impact in the country.
The song Selfish also had a great impact, which made him recognized internationally, leading him to collaborate with musicians such as the British Ed Sheeran in Cross me (2019).
Love me stillreleased two days ago, it was PnB Rock’s last song.
As soon as his death was confirmed, there were numerous messages of sadness and expressions of affection on social media.
