A rapper who signed future colleagues with his poets, and Waka Flocka Flame died on his 39th birthday in his hometown Atlanta, after he injured his leg, according to the authorities and several media reports when he ran from the police and jumped fences.
The death of 39-year-old Young Scooters, born in Kenneth Edward Bailey, was confirmed by the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office in Atlanta, as Variety reported for the first time.
In an explanation on Friday, the Atlanta police said – without scooters – to recognize that they were reacting to the first reports of shots that were fired in a house on William Nye Drive SE and that a woman was pulled back in.
“As soon as the officers arrived, they knocked on the door. A man opened the door and immediately closed the official's door,” said the police officer of Atlanta, Andrew Smith, and added that the police then cordoned off the area to look for a suspect.
“During the construction of the circumference, two men fled from the back of the house,” said Smith. “One man returned to the house. The other man jumped two fences when he fled. When the officials were on the other side of the fence, he seemed to have suffered an injury to his leg.”
He added: “In order to be very clear, the injury that was suffered did not become the officers on site. It was when the man fled.”
According to the office of the medical examiner, Bailey was brought to the Grady Marcus trauma center and died of his injuries there.
His cause of death was not immediately defined, with an autopsy.
The Young Scooter, born in Waterboro, South Carolina, joined the hip-hop scene in Atlanta at a young age, in which he had a “consistent presence … during his commercial boom in the 2010s”, Variety wrote.
In addition to other rappers such as Future and Young Thug, Scooter worked with Juicy J, Kodak Black and Rick Ross.
In 2013, Young Scooter said about his creative process in 2013 and said: “I don't care what I'm saying about a beat as long as it is about some money.
“If you try to think hard and to write it out, it will be shit.”
In March last year he published one of his latest projects, Traps last hope, with songs like Grind Dont Stop, Ice Game, Free Bands and Letters to God.