Overview
- Officers were dispatched at 11:11 p.m. to 69th and Figueroa, where a 34-year-old Black man was pronounced dead at the scene.
- LAPD said the victim approached a vehicle before an unknown shooter or shooters opened fire and fled.
- Local outlets reported the victim as rapper Jabari “Baby Uiie” Henley, son of Eugene “Big U” Henley, though authorities have not identified him.
- Claims that men in Texas Ranger–style hats were stopped as possible suspects remain unverified, with LAPD saying it has no suspect description.
- The death comes as Eugene “Big U” Henley faces a federal racketeering case detailed in a DOJ affidavit, to which he has pleaded not guilty.