San Diego, CA – Nick Cannon-signed rapper/producer Ryan Bowers is affected by life-threatening accidents following an incident when a San Diego police ficer shot him in his chest final Thursday (January three).
In accordance with KGTV, Officer Matthew Steinbach shot Bowers and claimed the capturing was in self-defense.
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“Fearing for his security, one ficer fired his weapon on the male placing him at the very least as soon as,” police stated.
The town’s police responded to a 911 name round 10 p.m. after an individual reported that Bowers, 23, had reportedly reduce his personal throat with a knife inside an condo situated in San Diego’s Halfway District.
When ficers arrived on the scene, they had been let in by a member of the family Bowers and situated the rapper within the again bed room the condo.
Bowers allegedly wielded one other knife from his pocket and raised it and pointed it in the direction of the ficers who had warned him to drop the knife.
As Bowers refused police orders, a number of gunshots had been fired by Steinbach and one hit Bowers within the chest. Bowers was given medical help from paramedics got here to the grisly scene, and is now in important situation at an area hospital.
Nick Cannon posted a prolonged heartfelt message on Instagram about Ryan Bowers and the rapper’s tumultuous life story. He mentioned Bowers’ skills as an artist, Bowers’ early historical past within the rap business in a gaggle referred to as PWD that concerned singer Kehlani, and showing on Cannon’s MTV present Wild ‘N Out.
“This truthfully hurts my coronary heart to must submit this proper now, however I’m simply requesting prayers and optimistic power for my younger man!” Cannon stated. “He had such a troubled and haunted journey once I first signed him that I wasn’t conscious as a result of he did all of it with a smile. One the nicest and honest youngsters you can ever meet.”
Bowers emerged as a solo artist earlier this decade, and has finished a number of collaborations with rap veterans together with Krayzie Bone Bone Thugs N Concord, E-40 and DJ Premier.