Rapper Young Dolph Dies at 36 in Memphis Shooting

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Police in Tennessee Monday announced that they've tied the car involved in the killing of rapper Young Dolph to a different deadly shooting that took place days earlier.  The previous attack left a woman dead and another person wounded days before the ambush on the 36-year-old hip-hop artist at a local bakery in Memphis. Two men exited a white Mercedes-Benz and fired shots into the business where Young Dolph was buying cookies Wednesday and killed him, Memphis police said.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Police in Tennessee have tied a car used in the killing of rapper Young Dolph to a shooting that left a woman dead and wounded another person days before the ambush on the hip-hop artist, authorities said Monday.Two men exited a white Mercedes-Benz and fired shots into a Memphis bakery where Young Dolph was buying cookies Wednesday and killed him, Memphis police said.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Police scoured the city of Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday as they searched for suspects in the killing of influential rapper Young Dolph at a popular local cookie shop, a shooting that drew shocked and mournful reactions from the music world and throughout his hometown.Few details have emerged about the shooting of the 36-year-old rapper Wednesday at Makeda's Cookie's, a well-known bakery not far from Memphis' airport.

Rapper Young Dolph is dead after being shot and killed while visiting a bakery in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. A representative for the artist, whose real name is Adolph Robert Thornton, Jr., told Variety in a statement that they are "shocked and deeply saddened by the sudden and tragic loss of our dear friend and client, Young Dolph." "The world has lost an icon, a great man and beloved artist who has been taken too soon," it adds.

MEMPHIS, Tenn.

It’s a sad day for both the music industry and the Memphis, Tennessee community as rapper Young Dolph was shot and killed in the river city on Wednesday.

Young Dolph, a rapper whose past three albums made the national Top 10, was killed Wednesday in a shooting at a business in Memphis. He was 36.