Rapper Half Ounce was shot and killed as he walked home in LA on Monday evening, his family has told local news media.
The 32-year-old artist, born Latauriisha O'Brien, had been walking with a friend at around 11.30pm in Koreatown when an SUV pulled up and began firing, Fox LA reported.
The LA Police Department reported receiving "numerous radio calls of shots fired, with a man screaming, in the 700 block of South New Hampshire Avenue".