At least two men were fatally shot, and another two injured after gunfire erupted outside a Connecticut concert hall where rapper Meek Mill had just finished performing Friday night, multiple reports say.
According to Wallingford police, the Mill, whose real name is Robert Williams, had just wrapped up his show at the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford when shots rang out by the venue’s entrance around 11:15 p.m. Two men were taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries — one consisting of a leg wound, said Lt. Cheryl Bradley during a Friday night press conference. “It was chaotic, as you can imagine,” Bradley said of the scene as police arrived.
Though a suspect in the fatal shooting has not yet been located and police are still trying to determine what prompted the shooting or whether the victims knew one another, Bradley assured the community that a manhunt is underway — available officers from several neighboring counties were pulled to assist early Saturday morning.
Meanwhile, the Record-Journal reports that authorities have given no details about the deceased victims, but said police interviewed the injured men in hopes of finding a connection.
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In a video clip taken outside the venue and posted on Twitter, it appears Mill was actually exiting the concert hall before a single gunshot ripped through the air. Concertgoers can then be heard screaming as a security guard urges them to take cover. “Get down guys, just get down, stay down, you’re fine, you’re fine,” the guard can be heard saying before the clip cuts off.
While this certainly isn’t the first time concertgoers have been subjected to gunfire at hip hop shows, (think Chris Brown, Nipsey Hussle, Nas and ScHoolBoy Q, T.I., Lil Flip and Mill again in 2013) some may say that the incident hits close to home for the Philly native. As you may recall, Mill lost his 21-year-old cousin to gun violence in Philadelphia this past September.
Mill has not yet spoken publicly about the incident.
