Aspiring Bay Area rapper Kenneth “Kenny Clutch” Cherry Jr. was murdered yesterday (Feb.21) in Las Vegas, NV. Cherry was gunned down in his Maserati, less than two blocks from where rapper Tupac Shakur was shot.
The Huffington Post reports:
“The family of Kenneth Cherry Jr., aka “Kenny Clutch,” have identified him as one of the three left dead after the Vegas shooting, according to Las Vegas Fox station KVVU.Clutch’s family confirmed that the Oakland, Calif., rapper was driving the Maserati that was fired on by the occupants of a black Range Rover Thursday morning around 4:20 a.m., KVVU reports. Clutch was shot while behind the wheel, ran his Maserati through a red light on Las Vegas Boulevard and hit a cab at the intersection of Flamingo Road.The Vegas shooting led to a fiery crash that onlookers described as something out of an action film, the Associated Press notes. The two individuals in the taxi were also killed. The shooting followed a reported argument that occurred in the valet area of the Aria hotel-casino.”