The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office announced that Atlanta rapper Young Scooter, real name Kenneth Bailey, died after puncturing his thigh while climbing a wooden fence and losing too much blood.
In a press release sent to Rolling Stone, they noted, “Mr. Bailey sustained a penetrating injury of his right thigh that created marked blood loss. This injury was not a gunshot wound. Mr. Bailey injured himself on organic (wooden) fencing material and/or woody debris after vaulting at least one fence.”
Before the Atlanta police revealed in a Friday night press conference that he died after suffering a leg injury while fleeing from them, rumors spread that they shot Bailey on his birthday. His friend Young Thug gave credibility to the shooting conjecture by posting on X today, “Autopsy came back street got shot (‘Street’ is one of Bailey’s nicknames).”
A recently released 911 call revealed that the Atlanta Police Department came to the home where Bailey was, in the Lakewood Heights neighborhood of the city, after a caller alleged that someone was shot in a domestic dispute. The caller, believed to be a woman, said she saw a man drag a “beaten and bloodied” woman out of the home on William Nye Drive SE, then drag her back inside. In a press conference after Bailey’s death, Atlanta police revealed that when they arrived, they didn’t find a woman; instead, a man who opened and immediately closed the door when he saw the officers.
According to them, two men, including Bailey, fled the home. One man returned, but Scooter kept running before sustaining a fatal injury. The Atlanta PD’s press release states, “When officers located [Bailey] on the other side of the fence, he appeared to have suffered an injury to his leg. Officers rendered aid, and he was transported to Grady Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.” Bailey’s death has shocked the Atlanta rap community, with peers and friends such as Young Thug, Playboi Carti, and Quavo offering public condolences.
Atlanta Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying the woman who made the 911 call.
