A candlelight vigil held for rapper Lil Lonnie late last week was interrupted by gunfire. The shooting took place on Thursday evening (May 3) as hundreds of people gathered for a memorial service in his hometown of Jackson, Mississippi.
Video obtained by MS News Now shows people running for cover following the shots.
The moment the gunfire began was captured in a Facebook Live video recorded by an attendee.
One witness questioned if the shooter had malicious intent or was simply shooting in the air.
“I don’t think they was shooting at nobody,” the witness and friend to Lonnie said. “I think they was just shooting in the air. Nevertheless, it was wrong.”
“It’s unbelievable,” one witness said while speaking with local news station WAPT.
“This supposed to be a thing for Lil Lonnie,” another witness added. “They choose to shoot while we got kids out here and all of that. Something needs to be done in Jackson.”
No injuries were reported after the shooting.
Lonnie was shot and killed on April 30 in Jackson.
Police are actively searching for Lonnie’s killer but so far they have yet to find any suspects. [apple_news_ad type=”any”]
His killers were at the vigil shooting
they went there to kill him again.
Funeral at a funeral, smh. Stop the ratchetry, its 2018
21 gun hood salute, really at a memorial?????
a dead black kid sitting on a mercedes staring at a stack of money…. go to the other story and watch Childish Gambino’s new video and wonder how these things come to be… priorities have been lost… RIP
I’m not even surprised by these types of stories anymore. Let the kid and his family have their day ffs.
Remember kids, Black livrando matter. All of this happens because these kids grandparents grandparents where slaves over a hundred years ago. That gives them the right to act like savages. They also live in a poor neighborhood where people seek drugs, so it’s not PC to complain when youth start shooting at eachother. Unless they aren’t black. Then it’s outrageous and we can’t stand for it.
“Show me a prospering black neighbourhood, and i’ll show you easter bunny”
It’s didndonuffin… Ya dumbass! Fucked up the whole troll move… SMH
I BET SOME RACIST WHITE CRACKER DID IT!!! oh wait.. nvm
So disrespectful, F the dead and their morning family huh? I doubt the shooter want that to happen to their family when they are morning them.
Its “mourning” you dumbass.
WOW SOMEONE WANTED THIS KID DEAD
I definitely blame white people for this! Thanks Trump, your the one who made us into gangsters who kill our own people constantly.
sarcasm spotted