Dolla Shot and Killed, Suspect Held on Bail

Akon protégé, Dolla (a.k.a. Roderick Anthony Burton II), was gunned down yesterday while waiting for the valet at the Beverly Center.  The murder sent shockwaves through Los Angeles since it was shocking that the crime took place that the very popular, upscale shopping mall.  

The 21-year-old had just completed his first album Another Day, Another Dolla, which is due out this summer.

The incident allegedly began around 3pm when Dolla got into an altercation of some sort with a man and a woman and ended with him being shot in the head.  Although Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was just a few blocks from the mall, there was nothing that could be done to save his life and he died.

It didn’t take long for the cops to track down the suspect who is currently being held on $1 million bail.  The LAPD have detained 23-year-old Aubrey Louis Berry who they found about an hour later at Los Angeles International Airport.  Reports state that he was allegedly armed with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun.  Two other persons of interest, a man and woman, have been questioned in connection to the shooting but not charged.

There hasn’t been any information about what caused the argument in the first place.  Dolla’s funeral will be held in Atlanta sometime in the near future.

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