The hip-hop neighborhood is mourning a tragic loss.

Atlanta rapper Young Scooter, who used to be signed to Future and Waka Flocka Flame's file labels, died March 28 on his 39th birthday.

The Fulton County Clinical Examiner’s Administrative heart confirmed the rapper's identity and demise to extra than one retail outlets, who reported the hip-hop megastar died at Atlanta's Grady Marcus Trauma Heart. The reason of demise of Young Scooter—proper title Kenneth Edward Bailey—remains undetermined, pending an post-mortem.

Atlanta Police Division Lt. Andrew Smith, a homicide commander, acknowledged at a press conference

that day that the 39-year-outdated, who used to be no longer known by title, died after suffering a leg wreck whereas fleeing police who had answered to a name about a dispute though-provoking a weapon.

“It used to be told within the name remarks that shots were fired and a female used to be dragged attend into the gap,” he acknowledged. “Once officers arrived, they knocked on the door. A male opened the door and straight away shut the door on the officers.”

Smith acknowledged the police then established a fringe, in which two men fled out of the attend of the dwelling. One later returned inner, whereas the different jumped two fences as he used to be fleeing.

“When officers located him on the different aspect of the fence, he regarded to beget suffered an wreck to his leg. Officers rendered attend, and he used to be transported to Gray Clinical institution, the effect he used to be pronounced deceased,” he acknowledged, adding, “The wreck that used to be sustained used to be no longer via the officers on the scene. It used to be whereas the male used to be fleeing.”

Smith acknowledged it regarded the man sustained “some form of shatter or injuries to the leg,” which used to be bleeding. He also acknowledged no shots were fired for the duration of the incident, which remains below investigation, and that officers were unable to discover a girl as described within the 911 name.

Young Scooter—a father of 5, per the Color Room—had hours sooner than his demise reposted on his Instagram Experiences ratings of birthday messages from family members, colleagues and fans. Following his passing, his son Kenneth Bailey Jr., shared a tribute on social media.

“Damn my most attention-grabbing friend gone,” he wrote on his Instagram Experiences. “Gratified Birthday too. I know exactly what to preserve out fasho tho I obtained my sisters and brothers.”