Up-and-coming Detroit rapper Dex Osama was shot and killed after an argument broke out at a strip club early on Monday morning, Billboard reported. Osama, the 26-year-old aspiring hip hop artist, was co-signed by Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill and fellow Detroit artist DeJ Loaf.
Osama (real name Byron Cox) was at the Crazy Horse gentlemen's club in Detroit when an argument broke out between two groups of men at around 1:30 a.m. on Monday, the Detroit Free Press reported. The shooter waited for Osama outside of the strip club and shot him twice, in the chest and stomach.
"The argument was moved outside, at which point a suspect drew his weapon, shooting the victim who fled," Detroit Police Sgt. Michael Woody told the Detroit Free Press. "He ultimately collapsed at a nearby gas station. He was conveyed to hospital where he was dead on arrival."
Jay Sareini, a good Samaritan who stopped to help Osama at the gas station, said the victim was alive after the shooting.
"I grabbed gloves out of my trunk, I applied pressure, and I'm sitting there and he's talking to me, he's alive, he's talking to me, 'please don't let me die,'" Sareini told local news station WDIV.
The rapper recently signed a record deal with Mill before his untimely death. Mill posted a tribute to Osama on his Instagram page.
"Damn RIP YOUNGIN," Mills wrote in the caption. "Had a lot of talks with you about getting out them streets and chasing ya dreams! I really believed in you and seen you putting on for Detroit! RIP @dex_osama for all my fellow young kings coming up tryna make it out, take ya time and think about where you want ya life to go! MAY GOD BLESS HIS SOUL! Never let them streets shatter ya dreams!!!"
See Mill's post below.
