Killah Priest’s record release party turned deadly in Los Angeles yesterday morning, leaving one man dead, two wounded and another young woman fighting for her life. Priest, who was celebrating his record release party at The Century Club, was performing to a packed house. Around 2:20am the drama started. According to eye witnesses allhiphop interviewed, a huge brawl occured after the release party was over. "After it let out, about 2:20am, a huge fist fight broke out, like 25 to 30 n##### came out that van and attacked like 10 other n#####. The guys in the van was claiming Hoover Crips," said one man. "N##### just started dumping." "I mean, it was a big free for all dawg, they was stompin n#####," said another witness close to the event. The bullets came from a car at Little Santa Monica Boulevard and Century Park East just after 2:40 a.m., police said. According to Wu-Tang member Prodigal Sun, all of the Wu-Tang was fine and the altercation had nothing to do with any Wu-Tang member. The Los Angeles times reports that the club owner Mark Fitzgerald told the L.A. Times, “We will not be holding any more rap events here. These groups are very hard-core. They draw a clientele we don’t want.”
Killah
Priest’s record release party turned deadly
in Los Angeles yesterday morning, leaving one man dead,
two wounded and another young woman fighting for her life.
Priest, who was celebrating his record release party at
The Century Club, was performing to a packed house. Around
2:20am the drama started.
According
to eye witnesses allhiphop interviewed, a huge brawl occured
after the release party was over. "After it let out,
about 2:20am, a huge fist fight broke out, like 25 to
30 n##### came out that van and attacked like 10 other
n#####. The guys in the van was claiming Hoover Crips,"
said one man. "N##### just started dumping."
"I mean,
it was a big free for all dawg, they was stompin n#####,"
said another witness close to the event. The bullets came
from a car at Little Santa Monica Boulevard and Century
Park East just after 2:40 a.m., police said.
According
to Wu-Tang member Prodigal Sun, all of the Wu-Tang was
fine and the altercation had nothing to do with any Wu-Tang
member.
The Los Angeles
times reports that the club owner Mark Fitzgerald told
the L.A. Times, “We will not be holding any more rap events
here. These groups are very hard-core. They draw a clientele
we don’t want.”
