Is Rapper Slim Dunkin Dead?

The U.S. rapper Slim Dunkin was killed on Friday in a recording studio in Atlanta.

According to police, the musician was in preparations for a video shoot when an altercation occurred.

“It appears the victim was scheduled to do a photo shoot,” Police Maj. Keith Meadows told The Associated Press. “Before the video shoot took place, it appears the victim and suspect got involved in a verbal altercation. We don’t know what that altercation was about.”

Dunkin was then brought into the Grady Memorial Hospital, where he later died.

He was in his early twenties, police said. The gunman had not been previously identified.