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Wed Oct 28, 2020, 08:49 AM Oct 2020

Rapper Brian Trotter found dead in car after Florida highway crash

Source: BBC

Rapper Brian Trotter found dead in car after Florida highway crash

28 October 2020

US police have found the body of an aspiring rapper in the boot of a car after a crash on a highway in Miami.

Florida Highway Patrol officers discovered the body of 25-year-old hip-hop artist Brian Trotter after being called to the site of the collision.

The driver, 25-year-old Robert Deupree Avery Coltrain, has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder and illegal transport of human remains.

An autopsy showed Trotter was fatally shot multiple times.

Officers have not suggested a motive for the killing. Mr Coltrain has been friends with Trotter - known by the rap name Kent Won't Stop - for more than a decade.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54714242

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Source: Miami Herald

Body found in trunk of car that crashed on Miami highway. Virginia man arrested for murder.

BY DAVID OVALLE
OCTOBER 26, 2020 01:32 PM, UPDATED OCTOBER 26, 2020 06:30 PM

Troopers stopped to help a Virginia man who’d gotten into a traffic crash Sunday afternoon on the Palmetto Expressway near Miami Lakes. A foul odor wafted from the trunk. Inside was the body of a hip-hop artist who went missing over a week ago.

Monday afternoon Miami-Dade police detectives arrested the man they believe shot and killed Brian Trotter, 25, who disappeared from Triangle, Virginia, on Oct. 17. Robert Deupree Avery Coltrain, 25, has been charged with second-degree murder and illegal transport of human remains.

Coltrain was booked into a Miami-Dade jail on Monday afternoon.

Trotter was a former Virginia high-school athlete who was trying to forge a hip-hop career, according to friends and family. His hip-hop name was “Kent Won’t Stop.”

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Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article246724506.html
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