The thing about life is that it can always be lost in an instant.
PNB Rock was enjoying lunch, and then he was dead the next thing you knew. People should stop blaming his girlfriend and speak more about the brazen violence in our country. Americans look down on violent countries, but we are the most violent country.
How many countries do you know someone can be eating lunch in the middle of the day and have to worry about getting shot in the chest in front of dozen of witnesses? Not many, and it will never change until we control our gun problem.
PnB Rock, best known for his groundbreaking take on the trap genre, was fatally shot in Los Angeles while dining at a South L.A. restaurant Monday afternoon.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the 30-year-old Philadelphia rapper, real name Rakim Allen, died after being shot “multiple times” at the Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles location on Manchester Boulevard during the course of a robbery around 1:15 p.m. local time. The rapper was rushed to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:59 p.m. As of now, LAPD officials haven’t named a suspect in the shooting — but an eyewitness told Rolling Stone the rapper apparently was targeted for his jewelry.
The witness, a security guard at the property who rendered aid to PnB before paramedics arrived, said the “Selfish” singer visited the restaurant with his girlfriend. A flurry of social media posts noted the girlfriend had shared a geotagged image of her food to Instagram in a since-deleted post.
“The victim was eating at a table when he was approached by one suspect,” LAPD Officer Norma Eisenman told Rolling Stone. She said the “suspect demanded items” from the rapper, brandished a weapon and fired multiple shots. The suspect “removed some items from the victim, entered a waiting vehicle and fled the scene,” she said.
Video showing the aftermath of the incident was shared to Instagram by bystanders. The security guard shown in the graphic clip spoke to Rolling Stone near the scene, his bright blue sneakers stained with blood. He asked to be identified only by the initials G.T. and said he heard about three shots before rushing to the wounded rapper’s side. “I did what anybody, I hope, would do for me,” he said. “I was telling him, ‘Be calm, be calm, get control of your breathing. Don’t trip on what you thought you seen, get control of your breathing.’ And then his breathing declined. It went all the way down. I think he was gone. He was just gone,” G.T. said. “I was probably the last person he saw.”
He said PnB’s girlfriend handed him her phone so he could hear a 911 operator give instructions on how to render first aid. He said the girlfriend was so distraught and “hysterical,” he had to ask others to hold her back. “She was screaming and didn’t know what to do, he said. “The robbery happened fast. They took some items. He had multiple chains on.”
The guard said he couldn’t recall anything about the suspects: “It was a blur. I had my glasses off. God put me in a position to not see sh*t.”
RIP, PNB Rock.
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