36-year-old Memphis-based Rapper Young Dolph has been shot and killed, according to a report from Fox 13 Memphis.
On Wednesday afternoon, Dolph went into a local bakery to buy cookies when someone drove up and shot him.
CONFIRMED: Law enforcement confirms rapper Young Dolph killed in Memphis this afternoon.
Full story- Rapper Young Dolph shot and killed in Memphis, law enforcement sources confirm https://t.co/yGRJSkHFVq
— Kayla Solomon (@KSolomonReports) November 17, 2021
Three independent law enforcement sources confirmed to FOX13 that rapper Young Dolph was shot and killed in Memphis Wednesday afternoon.
Maurice Hill, the owner of the shop where the shooting happened, Makeda’s Butter Cookies, told FOX13 his employees said Young Dolph walked into the store to buy cookies. Someone then drove up and then shot and killed him.
The rapper, whose real name is Adolph Robert Thornton, Jr. is well known in the Memphis community.
Apparently, Dolph was buying cookies for his mother at the time he was shot.
From what I’m hearing, Young Dolph went to pick up food and got ambushed, he returned fire but got hit several times and succumbed to the injuries he sustained.
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) November 17, 2021
I'm also hearing the place that Young Dolph got killed at was a cookie shop named 'Makeda's' in Memphis on Airways Blvd. Heard he was picking up cookies for his mother.
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) November 17, 2021
Just last week Dolph made a video shouting out the cookie shop where he was killed.
Just a week ago, Young Dolph made this video shouting out Makeda’s cookie shop and said every time he back in Memphis he always goes there. A week later he died at the same store 🥺 pic.twitter.com/bvDLqe0O9d
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) November 17, 2021