A rapper from Los Angeles, California was murdered while he was live on Instagram.

Police said in a press release on July 10 that Zerail Rivera, better known as Indian Red Boy, was killed on July 8 while he was in his car on Chadron Avenue in Hawthorne. The rapper’s identity was confirmed by the Los Angeles County coroner.

According to police officers, Hawthorne police were summoned to the scene at around 4:10 p.m. on July 8 to find the 21-year-old artist “slumped in the front seat of a vehicle parked in the carport to the rear of the building.”

Rivera appeared to have been shot multiple times. Los Angeles County Fire Rescue was also summoned to the scene, and they pronounced Rivera dead.

The suspected shooter has not been identified.

“It appears to have been a walk-up shooting and he appears to have been targeted,” Hawthorne police Lieutenant Ti Goetz said. Goetz believes that the shooting may have been gang-related.

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