Rapper Earl Hayes and his girlfriend Stephanie Moseley, a dancer who appeared on the VH1 show Hit The Floor, were pronounced dead in an apparent murder-suicide in Los Angeles early this morning (December 8).
A SWAT team responding to reports of gunshots in an apartment complex in L.A. were forced to knock down an apartment door where they found both Moseley and Hayes shot to death. TMZ reports that the shooting was possibly motivated by Hayes’ suspicions of Moseley’s infidelity with a celebrity singer.
A close friend of Hayes, Burrel Wilks, identified both bodies near the scene and told KTLA that the longtime couple was in the midst of a breakup.
In addition to her appearance on Hit The Floor, a VH1 reality series about NBA cheerleaders, Stephanie Moseley worked as a backup dancer for artists including Janet Jackson, Beyonce, Britney Spears, and Chris Brown. Hayes was previously signed to Floyd Mayweather’s record label and was friends with the boxer outside of music as well.
HipHopDX obtained a message from the building manager where the shooting took place and photos of the SWAT team on the scene.
“As the safety and security of our residents and our team members are our top priorities, we took the precaution of swiftly moving all residents who were in the vicinity to a location out of harm’s way,” the manager wrote. “The incident was isolated to one apartment and fortunately no other residents nor first responders were injured.”
Shortly after the news broke, several artists took to social media to offer their condolences. Chris Brown posted an image of himself alongside Moseley on Instagram.
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was she related to timbaland? i see they share a last name and he was posting about this.
TMZ is saying Floyd Mayweather was on Facetime with him when it happened. He might have been messing with his girl.
thTZ THt real nigga shit. Real niggas kill niggas they probe they bout that rap gangster life.
Nothing sadder than a White boy trying to pass as Black, oops, almost forgot your hero EM.
probably a police set up
uh…who?
Expecting 50 Cent to say something about this in the next 24 hours.
he already had, floyd reposted it on his page too
GAY BALFOUR WORLD’S BIGGEST HOE
Fuck this faggot. Killing a woman is a bitch move. Hope he likes getting ass raped in hell.
you can call him what ever you want and it won’t matter now because he passed away
Phuck women.
Thats a shame
May God bless them both…Sometimes getting out of relationships when you see the bad signs should tell you to go with your gut feeling..I don’t believe in suicide, and its just one thing to take your own life, but then to try to control a female and take her life cause she was apparently going places is just really sad
glad to see 50 and floyd becoming instagram pals again in the wake of this tragedy
What kind of coward, shoots an unarmed women….Suppose we won’t see any riots over the death of this young lady….Black people are such hypocrites.
Trolls are getting so tired
Terrible analogy.
Yeah, we probably won’t see riots. Because the rapper wasn’t being paid by our tax dollars to protect and serve the community, only to overstep his own authority and choke an unarmed man.
I get the troll bait you’re throwing out, but at least use a proper analogy next time.
What about Young B? Why would another black man shoot this kid, just when his life was getting started? Are they jealous of him? Is that any reason what so ever, to kill him? Why doesn’t that bother you? Turn on the news, anytime, anywhere, it’s young black people killing black people…What about your families, do you not think how bad your mom, dad, grandparents, real brothers and sisters, feel, the sorrow they are left with, forever?…Yet you only complain when an Officer kills someone breaking the law, not sure i understand this….Why doesn’t Mr. Sharpton, just say to the young ones, STOP, think about your action’s, don’t put yourself in a situation, where anyone with a gun, can kill ya, good guy, or bad guy.That same adrenaline, coursing through the blood of a criminal, is also coursing through the blood of the Officer sent to quell the violence, when two adrenalines colide, someone always loses… I know this is a delicate subject for a white person to talk about, i am sorry if i have offended anyone, i am not a racist, i hate no one, it really makes me sad, that there is so much killing of each other…This young lady, she could of gone on to be the next Aretha Franklin, Young B might of put his earning, to good use, and been responsible for financing the cure to lung cancer…Now we will never know….sad, unfulfilled potential…not to mention, real family, and the sorrow they must be feeling right now. I do not feel as though i am being a racist troll…If you hate me for my opinion, than the trouble, is you, and what’s in your heart.
This is what Hoe’s deserve. This man married you, supported you and loved you only for you to “take a break” from the marriage and go f* RnB celebrities like Trey songz and Chris Brown??
These heos ain’t loyal.
These hoes have no morals. In most cultures you get the death sentence for cheating.
You can’t make a hoe into a housewife
came in here hoping that was Earl Sweatshirt’s real name 🙁
just another fuq bwoi the world didnt need. chris brown already told yall these hoes aint loyal
just sad fuq bwoi had to take this fine lady with him