Three men were shot in Atlanta on Tuesday near the set of a music video allegedly shot by rapper Lil Baby.
According to the Atlanta Police Department, officers responded to a report of several people near a commercial area on Verbena Street in northwest Atlanta at 4:50 p.m. A 24-year-old man suffered an apparent gunshot wound to his arm and a 27-year-old man suffered an apparent gunshot wound to his back, police said. Officers said both men were conscious and breathing and were taken to a hospital for treatment.
Police said a third man, 23, appeared to have been shot in the neck and was taken to a hospital. He was conscious, breathing, and being attended to by medical personnel.
“Preliminary investigation has determined that the incident occurred during video recording. Investigators from the Aggravated Assault Unit were dispatched to the scene to determine the circumstances of the incident. At this time, the investigation is ongoing,” the department said. said in a statement that the investigation is in its early stages and information may change as the investigation progresses.
Atlanta Police Department Maj. Ralph Woolfolk told reporters at the scene that while the people shot were not part of the video production team, “there may have been individuals involved in the entire production that were involved in the incident.” ” he is said to have said. Atlanta Journal Constitution. Woolfolk told reporters the shooting appeared to be an “isolated, targeted incident.”
A spokesperson for the agency could not confirm that the artist was filming a music video when contacted by the Times on Wednesday.
A representative for the “Drip Too Hard” and “Yes Indeed” rapper, whose real name is Dominic Armani Jones, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. However, The Shade Room confirmed that the Atlanta-born rapper was safe after the incident, and a Lil Baby spokesperson said that neither he nor his production team were involved in the shooting.
A video posted on Instagram by local taco shop Slap Taco ATL shows the artist and his entourage parked in the same commercial district where the shooting took place hours earlier.
“I was delivering burritos and they just came, boom boom boom. I thought, 'Are you serious?' It was crazy,” Chasity Roman of Slap Taco ATL told Fox 5 Atlanta. “I fell between the bullets. It was just bullets, pow, pow, pow. It was terrible.”
The shooting occurred in the parking lot of the Village Retail Center, a plaza just north of Interstate 20 across the street from an apartment complex in the Dixie Hills neighborhood, the Journal Constitution reported. It was held in TMZ also obtained footage of the incident, which shows a group of men who appeared to be pretending to be filming their own videos and content nearby when the shooting occurred.