Multiple gunshots were fired
early Sunday into two buses carrying
Grammy-winning rap music star Lil Wayne,
and his entourage on a Georgia highway
following a performance in Atlanta.
But the police said that, no one was hurt.
About a dozen people were aboard the two
buses together when the pre-dawn
shooting occurred on Interstate 285 near
the junction of Interstate 75, northwest of
Atlanta, Cobb County police spokesman
Sergeant Dana Pierce said.
By the time police arrived, most of the
individuals from Wayne’s group had left
the scene.
The few remaining told officers they
believed the shots were fired from “some
type of white car” on the highway, Pierce
said.
Atlanta police spokeswoman Elizabeth
Espy was quoted by the Atlanta Journal-
Constitution newspaper as saying there
were two suspect vehicles involved,
possibly a sports car and a sport utility
vehicle, both white.
Police have no suspects, “nor was
anybody injured on the bus, fortunately,”
Pierce said, adding he had no immediate
explanation of what might have
precipitated such a shooting.
According to the Journal-Constitution and
the celebrity news website TMZ, Wayne,
32, performed Saturday night at the
Compound nightclub in Atlanta.
TMZ said other passengers on the buses
included executive’s of Wayne’s label,
Young Money, and other recording artists,
including Lil Twist and Hood.
Last month, a report of a shooting at a
Miami Beach home belonging to Wayne,
born Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., was
declared a hoax by police after
investigators found no evidence of victims
or gunfire.
Wayne won Grammy awards in 2008 for
best rap album, best rap song, best rap
solo performance and was part of the
award-winning best rap group
performance.
The New Orleans native has had run-ins
with the law on weapons and drug charges
and went to prison in New York in a gun
case.
Wayne’s representatives were not
immediately available for comment.
