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Tempe police report 14 victims were wounded following a shooting outside a nightclub Friday night where rap artist Nipsey Hussle was set to perform.
According to reports, "rival gang members started arguing then three people opened fire outside the Clubhouse Music Venue on Broadway Road, which is a few blocks southeast of the Arizona State University Tempe campus"
One person was taken into custody after the incident. He is facing 13 counts of aggravated assault and one count of assisting a criminal street gang. Additional charges are likely.
"People stampeded over security. Not what I expected to be doing on a Friday night -- dodging bullets," said Paul Butler, who witnessed the shooting.
Butler and other witnesses say a large crowd was waiting outside the club for the doors to open when the gunfire broke out.
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 A fistfight that began near a family unity festival headlined by funk musician George Clinton ended in gunfire, killing one and injuring three, Cleveland police said on Sunday.
During the fight in a parking lot near the concert venue on Saturday, one teenager produced a handgun and shot four people. One victim, a 16-year-old male, died from a wound to the head Sunday morning, Cleveland police spokesman Sammy Morris said.
A 20-year-old female wounded in the neck was reported as stable on Sunday, while two males who received gunshot wounds in the leg are expected to be released shortly from hospital, Morris said.
The names of the victims have not yet been released, he said.
The shooting occurred about three quarters of a mile from the Luke Easter Park locale where the annual "Family Unity In the Park" festival headlined by George Clinton & the Parliament Funkadelic was held. Authorities believe the incident is unrelated to the event.
"George Clinton and the other bands are basically from back in the 80s, that's when they were at the height of their popularity," said Morris, saying that over 75 percent of the crowd was likely over 40. "It's not like it was a Little Wayne concert or something when you have a bunch of 16-, 17-, 18-year-olds."
Initial reports on the incident put the time of the shooting at 9:55 p.m., according to an official of the Cleveland investigative unit for homicide, which is handling the investigation.
George Clinton and his band were due to take the stage at the free family event just after 8 p.m., according to an announcement for the concert.
Luke Easter in eastern Cleveland is the largest urban park in the state of Ohio, according to the Family Unity in the Park website. The park has also hosted political leaders such as Jesse Jackson and John Kerry.
"Bring your family, your blankets, your lawn chairs, your picnic baskets, and your grills for this family celebration. There will be a kiddie park for kids, health screenings, voter registration, information booths and more," the promotional website for Saturday's event stated.
No one has been arrested and investigators are asking for anyone with information about the incident or suspect to contact Cleveland Police.
"It's still ongoing, still an open investigation," Morris said. "It started with a fistfight, that's the one consistency; a fistfight that ended with the discharge of a weapon."
By Molly O'Toole | Reuters
(Writing by Molly O'Toole; Editing by Jerry Norton  Sean "Diddy" Combs has settled a multimillion dollar lawsuit with three people in a 1999 shooting involving his protegee at a Manhattan nightclub, one of the victim's attorney said on Thursday.
An attorney for one of the victims, Natania Reuben, confirmed the settlement but declined to give further details, saying the settlement that occurred earlier this year was bound by a confidentiality agreement.
"I can confirm it happened, but I can't say anything else because of the confidentiality agreement," attorney Debra Reiser said.
The civil lawsuit stemmed from a December 27, 1999 incident in which Diddy, his then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez and rapper Jamal "Shyne" Barrow were taken into custody following a shooting scuffle at the now-defunct Club New York in Times Square.
Barrow, who began shooting a gun in the melee, was later convicted of assault in shooting two bystanders who were wounded, while Reuben was wounded in the face by bullet fragments and in 2008 filed a $130 million lawsuit for compensation.
In his criminal trial, Barrow said that the shooting was in self-defense, after another group of men with whom Combs and Barrow had an altercation with started shooting.
Representatives from Diddy's Bad Boy Records, now a subsidiary of Interscope, could not be immediately reached for comment. His spokeswoman did not immediately return a query for comment.
Barrow, 33, was released in 2009 after serving nine years of a ten-year sentence because of assault, weapons possession and reckless endangerment charges stemming from the shooting. Shortly after his release he was deported back to his native Belize.
Combs and an employee of his, Anthony Jones, were acquitted on weapons charges.
The New York Post quoted former Club New York Owner Michael Bergos - who did not sign the confidentiality agreement - as saying that Reuben received $1.8 million in the settlement and that the other two victims received $50,000 and $500,000.
"I did nothing wrong and I may need to talk about (the incident) sometime in the future," Bergos told the Post.
(Reporting by Bernd Debusmann Jr., editing by Christine Kearney) LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Los Angeles rapper M-Bone, a member of the group Cali Swag District, was killed in what appeared to be a drive-by shooting, police and celebrity news sites said on Monday.
Police said a man was shot while outside a liquor store in the Inglewood area on Los Angeles on Sunday night and pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. Website TMZ.com identified him as rapper M-Bone, whose real name is Montae Talbert.
M-Bone was a member of hip-hop group Cali Swag District who found success with the 2010 single dance hit "Teach Me How to Dougie".
TMZ.com quoted police sources as saying that M-Bone was shot twice in the head and appeared to have been a random victim in a drive-by shooting by an unknown assailant.
M-Bone's age was given variously by authorities as 19 and 22.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant, Editing by Christine Kearney) A prosecutor in North Carolina is dropping charges against six men in a shootout at a store where rapper Waka Flocka Flame had been talking with fans.
The Charlotte Observer reports that one man was injured in the shooting Feb. 16 at a car stereo shop.
A spokesman for the rapper said the shooting started after several men tried to take some of Waka Flocka Flame's jewelry.
Prosecutors in Charlotte say none of the witnesses identified any of the shooters. Prosecutors also say there was no evidence of an attempted robbery.
The six men had faced charges that include attempted armed robbery, conspiracy and discharging a gun into occupied property.
Waka Flocka Flame's real name is Juaquin Malphurs.
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Information from: The Charlotte Observer, http://www.charlotteobserver.com CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Police say they are investigating a shootout in North Carolina involving rapper Waka Flocka Flame that left one person wounded.
Police told The Charlotte Observer that the 24-year-old rapper, whose real name is Juaquin Malphurs, was at Car Stereo Warehouse Wednesday afternoon. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police spokesman Rob Tufano says two vehicles drove into the store's parking lot around 4 p.m. as the rapper spoke with fans.
Tufano says the men in the car and people in the rapper's party exchanged gunfire.
Police say one person was shot in the shoulder and had non-life-threatening injuries.
No charges have been filed. The paper reports Waka Flaka Flame and three other men were questioned.
Tufano didn't immediately return a phone call to The Associated Press seeking further comment. Rapper G. Dep is facing a murder charge after walking into a police station to confess to a long-cold case, but he isn't regretful — he's relieved, his lawyer says.
"He had been haunted by this," attorney Anthony L. Ricco said Thursday after the rapper pleaded not guilty to charges including murder and manslaughter in the 1993 shooting of John Henkel. Defendants generally plead not guilty early in their cases, even if they've confessed, to allow evidence-gathering, legal arguments and any plea negotiations to proceed.
G. Dep, who had hits with "Special Delivery" and "Let's Get It" and helped popularize a loose-limbed dance called the Harlem shake in the early 2000s, turned up at a police precinct last month to say he'd shot someone as a teenager during a robbery in East Harlem. Detectives matched details he provided to the slaying of Henkel, who was shot three times in the chest outside an apartment complex.
The rapper, now 36, has said he didn't know the victim died until police told him so.
Ricco said he planned to analyze the rapper's statements and other evidence to see what charges he believes fit the case.
Born Trevell Coleman, the rapper was one of the rising stars of hip-hop impresario Sean "Diddy" Combs' Bad Boy Records label in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But G. Dep saw his career slump after his 2001 debut album, "Child of the Ghetto."
He became mired in drug use and racked up a roster of low-level arrests in recent years, though he has tried a number of addiction-recovery programs, Ricco said.
Meanwhile, he digitally released a new album, "Ghetto Legend," last year with a new label, Famous Records, which focuses on releasing music online.
Now being held without bail, G. Dep could face up to life in prison if convicted of murder. But the married father of three doesn't rue turning himself in, his lawyer said.
"I get the sense that he's relieved," Ricco said. "We have some people who say, 'Well, he was stupid for confessing.' On the other hand, there are a lot of people in life who say it's the first step toward redemption." Nine people were wounded in a shooting rampage last night during a concert featuring singers Trey Songz, Letoya Luckett and others.
San Francisco Hip-Hop/R&B station KMEL 106.1 was hosting the sold-out "House of Soul" concert when a fight outside of the venue resulted in the shootings.
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According to police, someone opened fire around 10:12p.m., but police were not clear if the victims of the shooting were attending the concert or not.
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