Within half an hour, the name "Magnolia Shorty" became a matter of trend, and a little after 5 pm, DJ Wild Wayne made an announcement on the air in the hip-hop and R & B Q93.3FM station.
"If you have not heard, Magnolia Shorty was killed today," he said. "I'm astonished. I have to get my head together for a minute."
The office of the Orleans Parish coroner had not published the names of the victims of the shooting Sunday night, so there is no official confirmation from the police or the coroner's office that Shorty was killed.
A tribute page on Facebook called "Magnolia Shorty was killed by a Smoking Gun" was set Monday afternoon as well.
The shooting occurred around 12:30 pm in the 6300 block of Bridgehampton Drive, police said. Authorities found a man and a woman, 28, shot inside a car that had crashed into the doors of an apartment complex.
Additional details about the shooting were not immediately available. Both victims were shot repeatedly, police said. They were dead at the scene, police said.
Renetta Born Lowe, Magnolia Shorty signed with Cash Money Records in the early 90's. She was brought to the attention of label owners Bryan "Baby" and Ronald "Slim" Williams by members of the supergroup Hot Boys, who had been his childhood playmates and friends growing up in the Magnolia Project.
Shorty released their first CD on the label in 1995. More recently, he had a couple of local club hits in a row with "Smoking Gun", a remix of Jadakiss, last year, and "My Boy", this year a collaboration with R & B singer and Jive Records newly signed artist Kourtney Heart. Magnolia Shorty performed frequently with the rapper and R & B singer Ms. T, the only other woman signed to Cash Money.
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