Nipsey Hussle’s suspected killer caught; charges, court loom
LOS ANGELES — After a nearly 48-hour manhunt, police arrested the suspect they say gunned down Nipsey Hussle in front of the popular rapper’s South Los Angeles clothing st or e. how the two men were acquainted
Los Angeles County sheriff’s or offer any details deputies detained Eric Holder, about their dispute, but he 29, on Tuesday afternoon in emphasized it was a personal the city of Bellflower, two days matter between Hussle and after the shooting and 20 Holder. Hussle acknowledged miles away from the crime that he was involved with a scene. LAPD detectives quickly gang when he was younger, arrived to verify that he was and police said Holder is a the suspect they’d sought. gang member, but the chief
The focus now shifts from said gang rivalries played no the streets to the courtroom. role in the shooting.
Holder is likely to be charged Police have named 29year-old with killing Hussle and to Eric Holder as a suspect make his first appearance in in the fatal shooting of front of a judge in the next Hussle outside his South Los two days. Angeles clothing store on Sunday.
Authorities announced (April 2)
Holder as a suspect Monday Tap to unmute night, publicizing his face and After shooting Hussle and name and publicly urging him the two other men, Holder to turn himself in. Police said fled in a waiting car driven by a tip from a citizen led them a woman, Moore said. to Holder. The police chief and the
Hussle and Holder knew president of the city’s Police each other, and the two had Commission, Steve Soboroff, some kind of personal dispute had been scheduled to meet in the hours before the rapper with Hussle on Monday to was killed, police Chief discuss the relationship between Michel Moore said at a news the police force and the conference earlier Tuesday. inner city.
The two men had several At Tuesday’s news conference interactions on Sunday, and an emotional Soboroff Holder returned to the store read from the email Hussle with a handgun and opened sent asking for the meeting. fire on Hussle and two other “Our goal is to work with men, who survived the shooting, the department to help improve police said. communication, relationships
The chief did not reveal and work towards
changing the culture and dialogue between LAPD and your city,” Hussle said in the email.
A memorial with art, flowers and tributes to Hussle grew around the store that he had hoped would be an anchor to revive the blocks around it.
Hundreds of fans and friends came to celebrate him. The scene grew tense Monday night when one man brandished a gun and caused a stampede that left nearly two dozen people injured, police sai d.
The 33-year-old Grammynominated rapper, whose real name was Ermias Asghedom, had recently purchased the strip mall and planned to redevelop it into a mixed-use commercial and residential compl ex.
The plan was part of Hussle’s broader ambitions to remake the neighborhood where he grew up and attempt to break the cycle of gang life that lured him in when he was younger.
“Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman on Tuesday joined a chorus of prominent names who have praised Hussle for his art and his humanity.
“He’s a person that — he didn’t see himself just rising on his own, that he saw himself rising with his community, with the people that he actually grew up with and knew,” Boseman told The Associated Press at the CinemaCon expo in Las Vegas. “So to me, anybody that puts that much energy back into their surroundings, you have to honor them.”
Boseman added, “People knew where his heart was. And his music was great.” ( AP)