Ludacris‘ longtime manager Chaka Zulu has reportedly been arrested on a murder charge in connection to a fatal triple shooting in June.
According to WSB-TV reporter Michael Seiden, Zulu is facing a litany of additional charges, including aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during commission of a felony and simple battery.
Seiden’s tweet read: “BREAKING: Ludacris’ longtime manager Chaka Zulu arrested on murder charge. The music executive, whose real name is Ahmed Obafemi, is also charged w/ aggravated assault , possession of firearm during commission of a felony and simple battery, according to jail records. @wsbtv.”
Sieden also reported in a previous tweet, Chaka Zulu surrendered to authorities on September 13 and bonded out the same day. He was one of three people shot on June 26 outside of a Buckhead restaurant in Atlanta.
As reported at the time, several men got into an argument around 11:35 p.m. local time and several shots were fired, which struck Chaka, injured another and killed 23-year-old Artez Benton of Scottdale.
It was initially thought Chaka Zulu fired in self-defense. On June 30, TMZ reported multiple sources who’ve viewed the surveillance footage recorded outside the APT 4B restaurant said it looked like he was trying to prevent himself from getting killed.
Chaka, his daughter and another friend were leaving an event when he was approached by another man in the parking lot. In the video, Chaka and the other man started to exchange words until the conversation appeared to grow more aggressive. Simultaneously, another man had his hand on his waistband like he was getting ready to pull out a weapon.
A female bystander tried to push the man away from Chaka, but he bumped into the music executive with his chest, prompting Chaka to grab him by the collar. Then, a group of about three of four other men, who’d been watching the whole event unfold, knocked Chaka to the ground with a punch and proceeded to kick him.
One of them eventually produced a gun and fired at least two shots. Consequently, Chaka drew his own weapon and fired at least one shot in return. Police believe a bullet from Chaka’s gun is what killed Benton.
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Ain’t no way I’d be living in the same city after all that. You gotta be smarter than that. Gucci live in Miami for the same reason. Leave.
Sounds like self defense to me. Don’t understand the murder charges if in fact that’s what’s shown in the surveillance footage.
If you a civillian, every shooting is a murder charge until proven otherwise.
Okay. Isn’t that definition of self-defense if someone pulls a gun on you and shoots at you? SMH. Wasting taxpayer money.
Read the story, not the headline. Shooting a bystander who isn’t attacking you isn’t self defense. Shooting those attacking you is. Understand? No? Didn’t think you would, sorry for wasting both of our time.
Chaka caught a stray and met up with the docta docta, not Dre, after this gun charge, he gon walka walka, away unscathed.
Raps for days my man
Why is he even charged, this is self defense
The guy who he shot was an innocent bystander that wasn’t involved.
Why can’t brothers just stay out of trouble? Is it really that hard? If it ain’t the rapper it’s the manager. Only in hip-hop does this happen all the time. The devil really as a loud voice these days. There are only so many times you can blame the system.
It’s the music of gangsta /drill rap plus the broken homes with no male role model, IMO.
That fellas african as heck
They shouldna been fk’n with Chaka no way, he was chillin’ wit’ his daughter, self defense!!!
It’s not considered self defense when you shoot a bystander who isn’t attacking you. That’s the issue here, and why he wasn’t arrested sooner. If he had hit those who attacked him, then hell yeah. But he shot someone who was not attacking him, which isn’t legal to do. If my home gets broken into by killers, I can’t shoot the passenger in their car who’s sitting in there waiting for them.
he’ll beat it; DA clout chasin’…