Rapper Young Scooter dies at age 39 after fleeing from the police

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Rapper Young Scooter dies at age 39 after fleeing from the police

Young Scooter, an American rapper known for his success ‘Jugg King’, has died this Friday, March 28, on his birthday, after a police persecution in Atlanta. According to the official information, Scooter jumped two fences while fleeing the agents, in the fall one leg was wounded and finally died in an Atlanta hospital. He was 39 years old.

The police went to the residence where Young Scooter was alerted by the call of some neighbors who had heard shots and seen a woman being dragged into the house while trying to escape, reports the New York Post. The persecution began when the police knocked on the door, a man opened it and closed it immediately when he saw the agents. A man fled from the back of the house and Young Scooter jumped two fences.

Young Scooter, whose real name was Kenneth Edward Bailey, was a relatively known rapper in the United States, especially in Future’s environment, which signed Young Scooter to his label, Freebanz, in 2012. In that year, Scooter obtained his first regional success, ‘Colombia’, included in his first mixtape.

Young Scooter published about twenty mixtapes and is known for its solo success ‘Jugg King’, which adds about 30 million streamings in Spotify, and for ‘Jet Lag’, a collaboration with Future and Juice Wlrd that gave Scooter his only entry in the Billboard Hot 100 in 2018. Scooter also collaborated with Gucci Mane Migos or Young Thug.
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