Troy Ave crew member Ronald McPhatter aka B$B Banga was fatally injured from a gunshot wound during T.I.'s concert at Irving Plaza in New York City.
The incident reportedly began after a fight erupted in a limited-access section on the seventh floor. It then spread to the second floor, where the shooting took place outside the green room of the Union Square venue around 10 p.m. EST., a police source said. The gunplay then spilled into the area near the stage, causing panic among more than 1,000 rap fans packed into the music hall.
Banga was shot in the stomach and was declared dead at Beth Israel Hospital, a source said.
Banga was among the four people shot which includes three men and one woman, and was the lone fatality. Troy Ave was reportedly shot as well in the leg as he entered the green room and went by himself to NYU Langone Medical Center, where he was in stable condition. Christopher Vinson, 34, was shot in the chest and taken to Bellevue, sources said. Maggie Heckstall, 26, who was shot in the leg, was recovering at Bellevue, where rapper 50 Cent visited her.
New York Police Department Commissioner Bill Bratton blamed the shooting on “so-called rap artists who are basically thugs.”
“The crazy world of the so-called rap artists who are basically thugs that basically celebrate the violence they live all their lives,” Bratton said during a radio interview on WCBS 880 Thursday morning. “Unfortunately, that violence often manifests itself during the performances and that’s exactly what happened last evening.”
Source: globalgrind.com
