Police arrest suspect in rapper Nipsey Hussle's murder

Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michael Moore.

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published 2 April 2019

Police have arrested a man suspected of killing rapper Nipsey Hussle

Earlier on Tuesday, police announced they were seeking to arrest a man named Eric Holder for Hussle's Sunday murder. Police in the southeast Los Angeles suburb of Bellflower say Holder was the man they arrested Tuesday, but a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department would "only say a possible suspect has been detained," The Washington Post reports.

Hussle, a 33-year-old Grammy-nominated rapper, was shot multiple times outside his clothing store in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon. Police later said they believed the shooting stemmed from a "personal matter" between Hussle and the suspect. Hussle was a former gang member who had been actively speaking against gang violence, and the suspect was believed to have gang ties. The LAPD later identified the suspect as 29-year-old Holder and asked him to surrender. Police did not detail how the Tuesday arrest happened.

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.

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