Showing posts with label Celebrity death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Celebrity death. Show all posts

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Rapper Slim Dunkin Shot & Killed At Music Studio (RIP)

Hip Hop has lost another artist due to gun violence, as Slim Dunkin, a member of Waka Flocka’s Brick Squad has passed away earlier today.
Just moments ago, Brick Squad affiliate Bo Deal took to his Facebook page and made the announcement of Slim Dunkin’s untimely passing.
Atlanta police say the rapper Slim Dunkin was gunned down Friday evening inside a city music studio as he was preparing to record a video.

Police Maj. Keith Meadows stated the rapper, whose actual title is Mario Hamilton, was fatally shot within the chest following obtaining into an argument with an additional person.

He was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital exactly where he was pronounced dead.

Meadows told The Related Press late Friday that police haven't been in a position to determine the shooter. He stated investigators happen to be interviewing those that had been within the studio. He stated as numerous as 20 individuals had been within the little office-type creating in the time with the shooting, which took location about five:30 p.m., however they had been in various locations.

Police haven't recovered the handgun that was utilized. Investigators remained in the scene late Friday evening.

“Right now we’re just attempting to....determine who might have observed what, truly just attempting to place the pieces with the puzzle collectively,” Meadows stated. “It appears everyone witnessed some thing extremely various. We’re just attempting to go back and make sense of every thing.”

Slim Dunkin had appeared on numerous songs using the rapper Waka Flocka Flame. The web site Mtv.com reported that the Brick Squad Monopoly rapper was on a solo track and had lately released a 20-track mix tape that featured Gucci Mane, Roscoe Dash and Pastor Troy.

“It seems the victim was scheduled to complete a photo shoot,” Meadows stated of Friday’s occasions. “Before the video shoot took location, it seems the victim and suspect got involved with a verbal altercation. We do not know what that altercation was about.”

“The suspect created a weapon, discharged that handgun 1 time, striking the victim within the chest,” Meadows stated.

Meadows stated the victim was in his early 20s and resided within the Atlanta region.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Harry Morgan died after struggle with pneumonia

Harry Morgan  died Wednesday at age 96, was one of the first people I can remember seeing on television, in an early-'60s situation comedy called "Pete and Gladys," about which I can remember nothing else except that it also starred an actress named Cara Williams,

Harry Morgan , best known for his role as Col. Potter in   M*A*S*H  , died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles.During his long acting career, Harry Morgan showed a flair for deadpan comic delivery

Harry Morgan is a long-time character actor, famous as Col. Sherman Potter on  M*A*S*H , and as Officer Bill Gannon,  Jack Webb 's sidekick on the 1960s revival of  Dragnet . He played Pete, the wacky neighbor, then he took the character to a spin-off series,  Pete & Gladys  with Cara Williams.  But he will live on in the classic shows like MASH, which never gets old on rewatching, always had a soft spot for Col Potter.

On other series, he played sidekick to  Dennis Weaver  in  Kentucky Jones ,  Robert Conrad  on  The D.A. , and  Richard Boone  twice, on the early '60s anthology  The Richard Boone Show
His son Charles confirmed his death,  suffering from pneumonia recently.