Rapper Young Dolph shot dead in Memphis cookie store

A drama that shakes the United States. American rapper Young Dolph was shot and killed Wednesday, November 17, while in a cookie store in Memphis (Tennessee). “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”, said local police in a press release, before discovering the identity of the victim. Police said they have no information on the suspect at this time.

Young Dolph, 36, born in Chicago and raised in Memphis, had just entered the store when an armed individual appeared and shot him. 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, and the another in Los Angeles, where he had been hit by three bullets.