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Rapper Big Paybacc has been shot dead while eating his lunch in a
McDonald's near Los Angeles.
The star, whose 2011 track Gangsta Luv has been viewed more than
250,000 times on YouTube, was gunned down by an attacker who walked in
and opened fire.
Police said about 15 people were in the restaurant in Palmdale, a
community about 35 miles (56km) north of Los Angeles, when the
shooting happened.
The killer was said to have fired at the rapper several times using a
handgun and officers found the him with multiple wounds.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Deputy Guillermina
Saldana said: "It appears to detectives that the victim was the
intended target of the suspect and that this was not a random
shooting."
The victim was identified officially as 38-year-old Habeeb Ameer
Zekajj, the rapper's real name.
A woman who identified herself as his girlfriend, Jessica Jefferson,
told a local TV station that the rapper left behind three children.
She told CBS2: "For them to be that bold, to run into a McDonald's in
daylight, in front of people, kids you know, and take some kind of
vengeance toward somebody, it's inhumane.
"He's a good rapper, and he has so many followers and people who stand
behind him. He really is a good, solid person."
Big Paybacc was connected to former G-Unit artist Spider Loc.
Credit: Sky News
