News from St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that rapper Huey, who sang “Pop, Lock, And Drop It” smash hit in 2007, was killed in a double shooting in the city of Kinloch last night. Kinloch is just adjacent to Ferguson, the St. Louis-area city where Michael Brown was killed back in 2014.
Huey, who is addressed by the government as Lawrence Franks Jr., was pronounced dead at the hospital after suffering at least one gunshot wound around 11 pm while standing in the front yard of the house where he lived on, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. After rumors began to fly about Huey’s murder, his cousin took to Twitter to confirm the sad news.
Recalling back in 2017, the newspaper interviewed Huey about his upbringing in foster care with biological parents who suffered from substance abuse.
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“It was really rough,” he said. “My mama and daddy were on drugs. My brother was in and out of jail. The foster people were chasing me. It was crazy.”
The 34-year-old rapper has a teenage daughter named Lawryn who is certainly devastated right now because of the sudden death of her father. Our thoughts and prayers are with Lawryn and all of Huey’s family and friends at this difficult time.
Meanwhile, there is no motive nor a suspect from the police at the moment, but once any update of comprehension comes up, we’d let the general public know.
RIP to Huey!
