LAS VEGAS - A southern Nevada rap artist was killed and his friend was wounded in a shooting late Thursday outside a recording studio just off the Las Vegas Strip.
The 34-year-old victim was shot dead in a vehicle after an argument with several people about 9:25 p.m., Las Vegas police said.
He was identified by friends as Roosevelt Hines, a local rapper who went by the name "Mister Looks."
The driver of the vehicle, Thomas Richards, 30, was taken to University Medical Center in Las Vegas with several gunshot wounds, police said.
The two were found in a car after it crashed into a light pole about a block west of the glass-strewn shooting scene in front of the Dunjun Studio, in an industrial building on Sahara Avenue.
No suspects were immediately identified.
Police and firefighters were investigating whether a fire in the studio shortly after the shooting had anything to with the slaying.
Investigators said they didn't immediately know if the Thursday night shooting was connected with the May 23 slaying of Kansas City, Mo., rapper Anthony "Fat Tone" Watkins, 24, and another man, Jermaine "Cowboy" Akins, 22, of Las Vegas.
The discovery of their bodies in a southwest Las Vegas residential construction site prompted questions about whether they were killed in retaliation for the November drive-by slaying in Kansas City of California rapper Andre "Mac Dre" Hicks, 34.
Watkins had been considered a person of interest but was never called a suspect in Hicks' slaying, the second involving a California rapper in Kansas City last year.
The 34-year-old victim was shot dead in a vehicle after an argument with several people about 9:25 p.m., Las Vegas police said.
He was identified by friends as Roosevelt Hines, a local rapper who went by the name "Mister Looks."
The driver of the vehicle, Thomas Richards, 30, was taken to University Medical Center in Las Vegas with several gunshot wounds, police said.
The two were found in a car after it crashed into a light pole about a block west of the glass-strewn shooting scene in front of the Dunjun Studio, in an industrial building on Sahara Avenue.
No suspects were immediately identified.
Police and firefighters were investigating whether a fire in the studio shortly after the shooting had anything to with the slaying.
Investigators said they didn't immediately know if the Thursday night shooting was connected with the May 23 slaying of Kansas City, Mo., rapper Anthony "Fat Tone" Watkins, 24, and another man, Jermaine "Cowboy" Akins, 22, of Las Vegas.
The discovery of their bodies in a southwest Las Vegas residential construction site prompted questions about whether they were killed in retaliation for the November drive-by slaying in Kansas City of California rapper Andre "Mac Dre" Hicks, 34.
Watkins had been considered a person of interest but was never called a suspect in Hicks' slaying, the second involving a California rapper in Kansas City last year.
