American rapper Young Dolph shot dead in Memphis cookie store

A drama that shakes the United States. American rapper Young Dolph was gunned down Wednesday, November 17, while inside a cookie store in Memphis, Tennessee, local authorities said. “At 12:24 pm, Memphis police officers were called to the scene of a shooting” and “a male victim was located and pronounced dead on the spot”, Memphis police said in a statement, before discovering the identity of the victim.

Young Dolph, 36, born in Chicago and raised in Memphis, had just entered the Makeda cookie shop, where he used to be, when an armed individual appeared and shot him, local press reports. Police said they have no information on the suspect at this time.

The rapper rose to prominence with hits like Major and his album Rich Slav released in 2020 which quickly reached the top of the Billboard 200 musical chart. The artist had survived two shootings in 2017: one in Charlotte, North Carolina, during which his car had suffered a hundred shots according to the media Americans; the other in Los Angeles where he had been hit by three bullets. Many celebrities in the rap world have expressed their condolences on social media, with American rapper Gucci Mane saying “devastated”.