Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Dolla

Dolla has been booked for murder 23-year-old Aubrey Berry was booked early this morning and his bail was set at $1,000,000. Cops say two other "persons of interest" -- who were allegedly at the airport with Berry at the time of the shooting -- are being questioned. Rapper Dolla (born Roderick Anthony Burton II), 21, was shot and killed while waiting in the valet area of the upscale Beverly Center mall in Los Angeles on Monday in a brash daylight shooting that had diners and shoppers diving for cover as shots rang out.
According to the Times, police said the suspect in the case fled the scene in a silver Mercedes SUV and that a "person of interest" was detained while approaching the ticketing area at Los Angeles International Airport while armed with a gun. TMZ reported that police arrested a man, whom the site identified as 20-year-old Aubrey Berry, at LAX after authorities issued an alert that the suspect may be headed for the airport in an attempt to fly out of Los Angeles. The airport police reportedly spotted a man who matched the description of the alleged assailant sitting in the lobby of one of the terminals. According to TMZ, when police approached Berry, he said he knew why they were there, raised his hands and told them he had a 9 MM gun in his waistband. He was taken into custody.
The shooting took place around 3:10 p.m. in the parking garage of the popular mall as Dolla was standing near the entrance with several other people. Witnesses said four to five shots rang out at the normally quiet shopping center. The rapper, who had come to the mall to shop, was shot in the head and was swiftly taken to the nearby Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he died of his injuries. According to the Times, the LAPD has not announced a motive for the attack, and police are reportedly questioning a woman detained at the scene and a man who allegedly drove from the mall to LAX in a rented silver Mercedes SUV, which police later found in an airport parking lot.

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