The Los Angeles police have allegedly arrested the man responsible for the deadly gunfire on American musician Nipsey Hussle. "The alleged murderer of Nipsey Hussle has been arrested and is in police custody," the agency wrote on Twitter. The arrest was reportedly in the Californian town of Bellflower southeast of Los Angeles.

Nipsey Hussle - whose real name is Ermias Asghedom - was shot dead on Sunday in front of his fashion shop in the south of Los Angeles. The perpetrator escaped loud police in a car, which was controlled by a previously unknown woman. The investigators identified on Monday a 29-year-old as a suspected shooter. Since then, the man has been searched for. He is said to have shot and injured two other people before the fashion shop.

According to the police, the suspect and the musician knew each other. It should therefore come to last Sunday to a dispute between the two men.

Video: Mass panic at the wake for Nipsey Hussle

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At a memorial service for the musician several people were injured on Monday night. Panic broke out in the crowd over rumors of a gunfight, an eyewitness told The Los Angeles Times. Several people have been trampled.

Around a dozen people were treated and hospitalized, Los Angeles police chief Michel Moore wrote on Twitter, citing a preliminary fire department report. He spoke of chaos. Many of the victims had been treated for sprained ankles.

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Nipsey Hussle: The vigil ends in mass panic

Hussle was from an area of ​​gang violence in Los Angeles. Later he spoke openly about his experiences in the notorious Crips gang: "We had to do with death, with murder," he told The Los Angeles Times in 2018. "It was like living in a war zone where people die in the blocks and everyone is a bit dulled."

His music career started Hussle in the underground hip-hop scene. For a long time he was commercially unsuccessful, but his colleagues appreciated his mixtapes early on. Jay-Z bought him 100 of them for $ 100 each. His first studio-produced album "Victory Lap" immediately earned Hussle a nomination for a Grammy for Best Rap Album. He was defeated at the award ceremony in February by the rapper Cardi B.