Young Scooter, Atlanta rapper, died at 39 on his birthday: Reports

Atlanta rapper Young Scooter is dead at 39, according to reports.

The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office told Atlanta outlet 11 Alive and entertainment magazine Variety that Kenneth Bailey, 39, died after an incident in Atlanta on Friday night. Bailey, a Future collaborator and Southern rap staple, is better known as Young Scooter.

In a press conference Friday, Atlanta Police Department homicide commander Lt. Andrew Smith said that officers responded to a dispute with a weapon Friday, which was Young Scooter’s 39th birthday. He said initial reports indicated that shots were fired. 

USA TODAY has reached out to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office for comment.

“Once officers arrived they knocked on the door. A male opened the door and immediately shut the door on the officers,” Smith said. Then, APD set up a perimeter at the scene, Smith said.

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“During the process of establishing the perimeter, two males fled out of the rear of the house,” Smith said. “One male returned back into the house. The other male jumped two fences as he was fleeing. When officers located him on the other side of the fence, he appeared to have suffered an injury to his leg.”

“Officers rendered aid and he was transported to Grady Hospital where he was pronounced deceased,” Smith told reporters, adding that “that male is going to be a 39-year-old male out of Atlanta,” which matches Bailey’s description.

Atlanta police clarified that the Young Scooter incident was not an officer-involved shooting.

“Just to be very clear, the injury that was sustained was not via the officers on scene. It was when the male was fleeing,” Smith continued. 

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