Lil Baby's concert in Alabama was shot up on Saturday night, which reportedly left one person injured. He was performing at the Bill Harris Arena in Birmingham, when a shooting broke out inside the venue that led the artist to flee the stage. According to a local Alabama news source, the victim was taken to UAB Hospital for treatment with critical injuries.
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Police reportedly descended onto the arena at approximately 10:00pm. Video footage captured by various concertgoers shows what appears to be a fight breaking backstage. During the altercation, a gunshot can be heard.
Lil Baby was performing his song, "My Dawg" off his 2017 mixtape, Harder Than Hard: Gangster Grillz when the incident occurred. He promptly fled the scene as audience members scattered, bringing the concert to an abrupt halt. He appears to be alright, as he has updated his Instagram stories since the time of the shooting. He also posted a photo of himself posing in a convenience store with the location tagged, "Birmingham, Alabama."
"Blogs Post Anything For A Click," he wrote in the caption. "Sh*t Lame Get Off A Young N*gga Dicc." While it's possible he's referring to the reporting of the shooting, he may also be referring to the rumours that his crew jumped his fellow Quality Control artist, Offset. Lil Baby flat out denied these rumours and urged the media to stop reporting "fake news."
Meek Mill No Longer Battling Concert Shooting Case After Final Lawsuit Gets Dismissed
Meek is officially done battling these cases out in court.
The events that took place outside of a 2016 Meek Mill concert in Connecticut, in which two young men by the names of Travis Ward and Jaquan Graves were shot and killed, lead to multiple lawsuits filed against Meek. The rapper has been battling these cases out in court for years, initially facing three separate lawsuits in connection with the incident. However, following the dismissal of Jaquan Graves’ family’s lawsuit earlier this month, it looks like Meek can officially put this whole tragedy behind him. According to The Blast, court documents state that the family of Travis Ward have dropped their case against Meek and dismissed all defendants.
All three lawsuits, which were filed against Meek, Live Nation, and the Oakdale Musical Theatre Company, had accused the defendants of negligence in hiring security. In one of the suits, the accusers even attempted to blame Meek’s lyrics in his music for inciting violence, citing that they were the cause for the “history of shootings at his shows.” At one point, the families offered to settle with Meek for $6 million dollars total. However, Meek did not accept, and has denied all allegations of wrongdoing. He argued his inability to have foreseen the shooting occurring, and denied any negligence when hiring security. He claimed that there were third parties involved who were outside of his control. In the Jaquan Graves case, he even pointed to the gunshot residue found on Daquan’s body, which would “indicate that [the victim had] discharged a firearm during the melee” as well.
Meek Mill Takes Major Win In Wrongful Death Lawsuit: Report
The family of the victim dropped the case against Meek.
Meek Mill‘s had to face several lawsuits in the past, recently being sued by a former Philadelphia cop over Amazon’s Free Meek documentary. More recently, he’s secured a major win in a lawsuit that’s been haunting him over the past few years, including when he was incarcerated. According to The Blast, Meek’s name, along with other defendants, has been cleared in a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from a 2016 shooting outside of a Meek Mill concert.
Jaquan Graves’ estate went to court to dismiss the claims against Meek Mill and the others listed in the lawsuit. Meek had previously denied that he had any sort of involvement, knowledge, or prediction that a shooting could’ve taken place. He refuted any sort of wrongdoing in the case, even claiming that police found gun powder residue on the victim meaning that there’s a chance Graves’ could’ve discharged a weapon as well.
This marks the second out of three lawsuits filed against Meek that have been tossed out. Meek was sued alongside Live Nation and the Oakdale Musical Theatre Company, claiming that they were negligent in hiring security for the concert. Meek was also accused of inciting violence at his concerts, even detailing the history of shootings at Meek Mill concerts.
With two lawsuits against the rapper tossed, he still has one more to go.