Atlanta rapper Waka Flocka Flame’s tour bus was shot at while a stereo was being installed Wednesday in North Carolina, a Fox affiliate television station in Charlotte is reporting.
The rapper, his brother and another person -- someone not involved in Waka Flocka's entourage -- were briefly detained and questioned after the shooting outside the Car Stereo Warehouse in east Charlotte, according to Fox and other Charlotte television stations.
The rapper's publicist, Kali Bowyer, said random cars pulled up and began shooting, Fox Charlotte is reporting.
Bowyer says Waka Flocka Flame's security guards returned fire, injuring one of the shooters, according to the TV station.
One person was shot in the shoulder and taken to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to multiple media reports.
Waka Flocka, the alias of Juaquin James Malphurs, spent two days in a Henry County jail in January after turning himself in to authorities. He was booked on charges including drug and weapons possession, as well as criminal street gang activity and a probation violation, according to jail records.
In December, police arrested two people at Malphurs’ Henry County home for possession of a minor amount of marijuana. The rapper wasn’t home at the time but still was charged.
He was arrested in Houston County last March for leaving Georgia for a concert, which violated his probation from a 2006 incident. At the time, he pleaded guilty to possession of a sawed-off shotgun and received four years' probation, according to the Houston County Superior Court Clerk's office.
He was shot in the arm during an apparent robbery at the Bubble Bath Car Wash on Old National Highway in January 2010.
Waka Flocka performed at the Tabernacle Feb. 4 with a host of artists.
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