BEVERLY CENTER BANGIN

Yesterday  5/18, the Beverly Center was a crime scene.

The upscale mall that houses such fabulous retailers like D&G, H&M, and Gucci was taped off by LAPD by the east entrance.

NBC reported that one person was shot and killed on the ground level:

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The Los Angeles Times reported Dolla flew to L.A. Monday morning to work on his first album, slated to be out this summer.

Atlanta-based rapper Dolla was fatally shot at a Los Angeles shopping mall Monday afternoon, causing mall diners to dive for cover and sparking a police dragnet for suspects.

Los Angeles police said a man was arrested for investigation of murder. Police said in a news release that 23-year-old Aubrey Louis Berry of Georgia was being held on $1 million bail Tuesday after he was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport with a gun on Monday night.

Dolla, whose real name is Roderick Burton II, was shot at the Beverly Center near West Hollywood and Beverly Hills after an argument with the gunman, his publicist Sue Vannasing told the Los Angeles Times. Police and coroner's officials have not confirmed the victim's identity.

Police said the man detained at the airport is believed to have dropped off a rental car before he was found at the airport with a handgun, said airport police spokesman Sgt. Jim Holcomb.

"As the officers approached the suspect, they asked him 'Do you know why we're here?'" Holcomb told The Associated Press. "He put his (hands) up in the air and said, 'Yes, I've got a gun in my waistband. Don't shoot me.'"

Police recovered a loaded 9mm semiautomatic handgun and turned the 20-year-old man over to Los Angeles police.

Vannasing said the Atlanta-based Burton and another rapper, D.J. Shabbazz, were waiting at the valet stand after shopping when an argument broke out with another group and Burton was shot.

All kind of news media and at least five patrol cars were stationed outside of the swank establishment.   People on foot were allowed to come and go but drivers with vehicles in the parking structure were quarantined.

Such sad and scary news!!!

Everyone in LA knows how ghetto that mall gets especially on the weekends and at night time.

It's best to shop during the week and during daylight and avoid Beverly Center from Friday at 4pm to Monday morning when it opens at 10 am.

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