According to investigators, Atlanta rapper Young Scooter passed away on Friday, his 39th birthday, in a bizarre accident that happened when he was escaping a run-in with the law.
The hip-hop musician, whose actual name is Kenneth Edward Bailey, passed away at the Grady Marcus Trauma Center in Atlanta following a leg injury he received when leaping a fence.
According to 11 Alive, which cited Atlanta Police Department Lt. Andrew Smith, police were called to a residence in the city’s southeast after hearing reports of gunfire and a woman being pulled back inside as she tried to escape.
Police issue statement on Young Scooter
According to the outlet, two men left the back of the house when they noticed police setting up a perimeter after a man unlocked the door and swiftly closed it in their face as officers arrived on the scene.
At a press conference on Friday evening, Smith stated: “One male returned back into the house. The other male jumped two fences as he was fleeing. When officers located him on the other side of the fence, he appeared to have suffered an injury to his leg,”
“Just to be very clear, the injury that was sustained was not via the officers on scene. It was when the male was fleeing,”
The Atlanta Medical Examiner’s Office stated that the rapper’s cause of death is still being looked into after Bailey passed away in the hospital, according to 11 Alive. Smith refuted early claims that officers had shot Young Scooter dead. Smith did not name Bailey.
According to Billboard, Bailey was born in South Carolina and moved to Atlanta with his family when he was nine years old.
