of rapper dolla is shot, killed at beverly center, hours after his first tweet

Rapper Dolla is shot, killed at Beverly Center: Atlanta-based rapper Dolla (né Anthony Burton II) was shot and killed outside of Los Angeles' Beverly Center shopping mall, 2 hours after his first tweets

Dolla, a rapper whose real name is Roderick Anthony Burton II, was shot in the head as he and several other people stood near the center's La Cienega Boulevard entrance, according to police, witnesses and Dolla's publicist, Sue Vannasing. A friend of the rapper's who was at the Beverly Center and a Los Angeles Police Department official also confirmed the victim's identity to The Times...the LAPD issued a bulletin for a 20-year-old man considered a "person of interest" in the shooting. Los Angeles Airport Police officers spotted a man fitting the description in the ticketing lobby of Terminal 1.

Dolla, a rapper whose real name is Roderick Anthony Burton II.

Dolla's twitter and MySpace here and here.


Shoppers leave the Beverly Center parking structure as Los Angeles police investigate the scene of a shooting in which Atlanta-based rapper Dolla was killed.