Young Dolph was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee, on Wednesday, November 17, Billboard and Fox13 reported. He was 36.The “Aspen” rapper walked into Makeda’s Butter Cookies on Wednesday to buy cookies when someone drove up and shot him, the shop’s owner, Maurice Hill, told Fox13 after the incident.
Hill recalled the shooting taking place around 1 p.m. CT.The Memphis Police Department confirmed via Twitter on Wednesday that officers pronounced a male victim dead at the scene.Young Dolph, whose real name is Adolph Robert Thornton Jr., was born in Chicago but his family moved to Memphis when he was 2 years old.He rose to fame in 2016 after the release of his debut album, King of Memphis.
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