Huey, a rapper best known for his 2006 debut single “Pop, Lock & Drop It,” was killed in a double shooting in St. Louis County late Thursday. He was 32.
Huey, whose real name was Lawrence Franks Jr., was shot and killed around just before 11 p.m. in his native Kinloch, Missouri, a spokesperson for the St. Louis County Police Department told TheWrap, while a 21-year-old male who was also shot during the incident remains hospitalized with “non-life threatening injuries.”
The Bureau of Crimes Against Persons is leading the homicide investigation into the shooting, “which remains very active at this time,” the spokesperson said Detectives believe as many as 10 other individuals were present in and around the crime scene during the shooting, authorities told TheWrap.