Photo: Coolio (not shot & killed but did die) | By Salvador Hernandez, Staff Writer, LA Times | An Inglewood rapper died after he was shot multiple times by someone inside a dark SUV in Koreatown late Monday night, according to reports.
KTTV-TV, Channel 11 identified the victim as Half Ounce, who had released an album in May called “Gang Bangin.”
The Los Angeles County coroner’s office on Tuesday confirmed the victim’s identity as Latauriisha O’Brien, Half Ounce’s real name.
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OTHER NOTABLE MUSICIANS’ DEATHS
Our music community continues to lose our talented artists. We lost another rapper, Half Ounce, to gun violence – a husband and a father whose wife was pregnant. We are going to miss them so much. If you want to know more about any of the musicians we lost, please check them out at http://www.wikipedia.com
October 2022
4: Loretta Lynn*, 90, American Hall of Fame country singer-songwriter (“Coal Miner’s Daughter”, “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)”, “The Pill”), Grammy winner (1972, 2004, 2010).
3: Mon Legaspi, 54, Filipino rock bassist (Wolfgang), cardiac arrest; Half Ounce (Latauriisha O’Brien), 36, shot.
2: Mary McCaslin, 75, American folk singer-songwriter, progressive supranuclear palsy; Alexander Scriabin, 75, Russian musicologist and composer; Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, 79, Hungarian pianist and composer; Joy Vincent, 63, Indian guitarist.
1: Stamatis Kokotas, 85, Greek singer; Bin Valencia, 61, Argentine drummer (Almafuerte), heart attack.
September 2022
30: Keith “Wonderboy” Johnson, 50, American gospel singer; Kevin Locke, 68, American flautist and hoop dancer; Rahim Rahimli, 45, Azerbaijani singer, composer and actor; Colin Touchin, 69, British composer, pancreatic cancer.
29: David Malachowski, 67, American guitarist, producer and composer.
28: Artis Leon Ivey Jr., known professionally as Coolio, was an American rapper. First rising to fame as a member of the gangsta rap group WC and the Maad Circle, Coolio achieved mainstream success as a solo artist in the mid-to-late 1990s with his… Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2022
Third Rapper Shot and Killed in L.A. County in Less Than a Month // Other Notable Musicians’ Deaths
