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Rapper Dolla is shot, killed at Beverly Center
Los Angeles Times ^ | Sam Quinones, Rong-Gong Lin II and Andrew Blankstein

Posted on 05/19/2009 2:39:17 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Dolla, a rapper whose real name is Roderick Anthony Burton II, was shot in the head as he and several other people stood near the center's La Cienega Boulevard entrance, according to police, witnesses and Dolla's publicist, Sue Vannasing. A friend of the rapper's who was at the Beverly Center and a Los Angeles Police Department official also confirmed the victim's identity to The Times.

Burton, 21, arrived at LAX from Atlanta earlier in the day and went to the Beverly Center to shop, Vannasing said. After the shooting, Burton was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center a few blocks from the mall, where he died, police said.

The LAPD has not announced a motive for the attack or identified any suspects. Detectives are questioning a woman they detained at the scene and a man who allegedly drove from the mall to LAX in a rented silver Mercedes SUV.

About an hour after the shooting, the LAPD issued a bulletin for a 20-year-old man considered a "person of interest" in the shooting. Los Angeles Airport Police officers spotted a man fitting the description in the ticketing lobby of Terminal 1.

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


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: anationmourns; averysadday; greatnews; imchokedup; losangeles; rapper; shooting
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1 posted on 05/19/2009 2:39:17 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Another day, another Dolla.


2 posted on 05/19/2009 2:47:57 AM PDT by Roy Tucker ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."--Ayn Rand)
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This is a crazy crime. This “Dolla” kid isn’t even old enough to have a proper mustache: he’s a beardless youth. Now he’s a dead beardless youth.

This cRap gangsta culture makes no sense at all. Not on any level.


3 posted on 05/19/2009 2:48:52 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: nickcarraway

BUSH’S FAULT.


4 posted on 05/19/2009 2:48:54 AM PDT by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

must have dis respected somrone.


5 posted on 05/19/2009 2:55:44 AM PDT by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how.)
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To: nickcarraway

Barry let this happen. Barry hates rapping people.


6 posted on 05/19/2009 2:58:24 AM PDT by ZX12R
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To: VaRepublican
Trying to get “street cred.” Well, I guess he has that now. Too bad.
7 posted on 05/19/2009 2:58:30 AM PDT by cartan
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To: nickcarraway
OH NO! The Horror! How can we go on living?


8 posted on 05/19/2009 2:58:38 AM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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It’s sad that this young man is dead. It’s also sad to contemplate the amount of harm he might have done if he’d remained alive, and the kind of life he was leading to result in this predictable outcome.

What a waste.


9 posted on 05/19/2009 2:58:53 AM PDT by Tax-chick (The eviscerations will continue until morale improves.)
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To: nickcarraway

Killed by a drive-by music critic.


10 posted on 05/19/2009 2:59:46 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: nickcarraway

With a name like “Roderick Anthony Burton II”, he could have gone far in life. With a name like “Dolla”, he didn’t get very far at all.

We make our choices...


11 posted on 05/19/2009 3:02:12 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hey, Obama! Where's my check?)
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12 posted on 05/19/2009 3:12:49 AM PDT by maggief (Y)
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Wouldnt it be funny if the killer got a Dolla Pardon? bada bing


13 posted on 05/19/2009 3:31:50 AM PDT by DainBramage
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A punk thug wanna be dies like a punk thug wanna be.

I have come to the conclusion, after having to interface with these types for the past three years, that most of them are human in genetic material only and in their heads they are without humanity.

Evil has nearly taken an entire race of humans and I have a hard time mourning for them or their troubles.

14 posted on 05/19/2009 3:35:25 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: DainBramage

LOL, bad......


15 posted on 05/19/2009 3:40:58 AM PDT by Quick Shot
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To: nickcarraway

yawn, maybe if it happened a couple of hundred thousand times in one day life in this country would be a lot less dangerous.


16 posted on 05/19/2009 3:48:24 AM PDT by erman (Outside of a dog, a book is man's best companion. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.)
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Did a search for his lyrics, and as expected they’re too vile to be posted on FR.

Gangsta rap (all rap!) is one of the main reasons other counties and cultures despise America.


17 posted on 05/19/2009 3:51:23 AM PDT by angkor
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18 posted on 05/19/2009 3:53:33 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (Keep you powder dry, and your iron hidden.)
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To: angkor
Gangsta rap (all rap!) is one of the main reasons other counties and cultures despise America.

See, gangsta rap IS good for something.

19 posted on 05/19/2009 3:55:09 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: from occupied ga

>>>> See, gangsta rap IS good for something. <<<<<

Undermining America?

Did you forget a /sarc tag?


20 posted on 05/19/2009 3:56:49 AM PDT by angkor
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