Sauce Walka Recuperating After Being Shot in Broad Daytime Outdoors Memphis Hotel

Sauce Walka is recuperating after being shot in broad daytime in downtown Memphis on Saturday (March 22).

The 34-year-old Houston rap artist, born Albert Walker Mondane, was shot in the leg outside a hotel near Memphis’ FedExForum when an automobile with several individuals brought up and started shooting, TMZ reports. He is presently in the healthcare facility and is anticipated to make a complete healing.

An unknown guy who was with Sauce at the time of the event died from his injuries at the scene. The victim’s name has actually not been launched. Memphis authorities are still looking for the shooters, who left the scene in a white four-door lorry.

In an interview on Saturday, Memphis authorities validated that detectives think Walka and the other specific were particularly targeted by the shooters. Cops do not think the attack was random.

” This seems a targeted shooting event,” a Memphis Cops agent stated, according to theHouston Chronicle “The victims were outdoors by a car. The suspect lorry brought up. Numerous individuals left that lorry, fired shots without taking part in any discussion, they returned into the white lorry and left.”

People with details about the event are prompted to get in touch with Memphis CrimeStoppers.

Sauce, a Houston local, started his hip-hop profession in 2007 and has actually considering that launched several mixtapes. He has actually worked together with fellow Houston rap artists, consisting of Bun B, Lil’ Keke, Slim Hooligan and Travis Scott, along with other hip-hop stars like A$ AP Rocky and Migos.

In 2009, Walka was associated with another gun-related event throughout a Trae Tha Reality performance. Cops likewise linked him to gang activity in 2018, though he has actually rejected the claims. “I understand that I’m a record label, I understand that I’m an artist … I’m not into gang activity or any of that things,” the rap artist mentioned in reaction, according to the Houston Chronicle. In 2023, the rap artist was supposedly apprehended after leading Houston authorities on an automobile chase that ended in a crash.