Hundreds gather at site where Nipsey Hussle was fatally shot to mourn rapper
LA TimesA crowd of people gathers at the scene where rapper Nipsey Hussle was killed in a shooting outside his clothing store in Hyde Park. This has to stop.” FULL COVERAGE: Nipsey Hussle gunned down in South L.A. » Malik Spellman, a community activist, remembers when a teenage Hussle would staple fliers advertising his new music onto telephone poles. “The facts are,” Spellman said, “he was a good person.” Anita Hardine, a family friend of Hussle’s, said the rapper was a role model for countless kids in the community, especially young black men. “Black kids don’t get love, or they’re trying to get love from the wrong places,” said Hardine, an educator who’s lived in Hyde Park for 24 years. “It’s like a war zone out here,” Nuñez said, “and he was trying to make it better.” Hussle, who was known as much for his work in the community as for his music, was shot multiple times about 3:20 p.m. in front of his Marathon Clothing store at 3420 W. Slauson Ave., police said.