Rapper Snootie Wild shot dead in Texas
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 25: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Rapper Snootie Wild visits Music Choice on May 25, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)
NEW YORK - Rapper Snootie Wild is dead after reportedly being shot in Houston. According to the Memphis, Tennessee rapper's social media accounts, he died on Friday.
Published reports indicate the 36-year old, born LePreston Porter, was found with a gunshot wound to the neck and lying in a ditch.
Houston Police said surveillance video from the area showed a white vehicle pulling up with two men and one woman inside before a single shot was fired into Porter’s SUV, reported Click2Houston.com.
"Gone in body, but your NAME & LEGACY will live forever! #TeamYayo4Life," his Instagram read.
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Deadline reported the rapper backed into a ditch and when another vehicle pulled over, gunshots went off, police told a local television station.
"They were talking for a little bit, and then all of a sudden, gunfire went off. Only one shot, actually," the officer said.
In November, fellow Memphis rapper Young Dolph was also shot and killed at a cookie shop near Memphis International Airport.
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