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.
According to TMZ, 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.
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.
One man entered the house again. While running, the other male leaped two fences. “He looked like he had a leg injury when the officers found him on the other side of the fence,” Smith said at a press briefing on Friday evening.
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.
To be quite clear, the officers on the scene did not cause the injury. “It was during the male’s escape,” he stated.
According to Billboard, Bailey was born in South Carolina and moved to Atlanta with his family when he was nine years old.
In 2012, he signed to fellow ATL rapper Future’s Freebanz record label and scored his first regional hit, “Colombia.” According to the site, he collaborated with Future, Juicy J, and Young Thug on “DI$Function” two years later. He was also featured on the latter’s 2016 song “Guwop” alongside Quavo & Offset of Migos.
On Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs list, the song reached its highest position at number 45. He co-performed with Future and Juice WRLD on the 2018 song “Jet Lag,” which peaked at number 72 on Billboard’s Top 100 Songs.
