Rapper Silento charged with murder in shooting death

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Rod Bryant said that investigators believed that the 34-year-old was familiar with one of the residents in the neighbourhood.

This is not Silento's first run-in with the law.

Police responded to a shots fired call January 21 around 3:30 a.m.in the Panthersville area, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported.

A DKPD investigation later identified Hawk, 23, as the suspect, police said.

According to XXL, police responded to a call at around 3.30am on 21 January and found Rooks at an intersection with gunshot wounds to his face and leg, surrounded by at least eight shell casings. He was pronounced dead at the scene. They searched for the culprit by looking into ring camera video from neighbors, which caught several cars leaving the scene.

Chanel Hudson, a publicist connected to Silentó, has released a statement on Instagram about the entertainer's arrest.

The motive is yet to be determined. He was taken to county jail and released on bond several hours later. He was charged with inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant and later released. Hawk was accused of walking into an unlocked stranger´s home in the Valley Village area of Los Angeles and swinging a hatchet at the two people inside before one of them disarmed him. A bench warrant was issued for the Stone Mountain, Georgia native's arrest.

The news comes after the rapper, age 23, has been arrested multiple times in recent months in connection to domestic violence, weapons and speeding charges.

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