On the evening of November 26, 2003, the day before Thanksgiving, 26-year-old James Adarryl Tapp Jr., a Black male known professionally as the rapper Soulja Slim, was gunned down on the front lawn of his mother's home in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans. An assailant shot him at least four times, with bullets striking him in the face and chest. The sudden violence of the act sent shockwaves through the local community and the wider hip-hop world.
The investigation into his murder
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