Atlanta rapper Young Scooter has been identified as the man who died after injuring his leg while running from police.
Young Scooter, whose real name is Kenneth Bailey, died Friday night on what was his 39th birthday, according to multiple reports.
Atlanta police confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that they were called to a home on William Nye Drive to reports of shots fired and a woman being seen being dragged into a home. Officers never found a woman or confirmed that any shots had been fired.
When officers arrived, a man opened the door and closed it in the officers’ faces. Two men then ran out of the back of the house.
One went back inside, but the other ran from the police and began hopping fences. They say, at some point, he seriously injured his leg and was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he later died.
In a statement on Friday, Atlanta police (without identifying Scooter) said that they responded to initial reports of shots being fired at a home on William Nye Drive SE and that a woman was being dragged back inside.
“Once officers arrived they knocked on the door. A male opened the door and immediately shut the door on the officers,” Atlanta police lieutenant Andrew Smith said, adding that police subsequently cordoned off the area to search it for a suspect.
“During the process of establishing the perimeter, two males fled out of the rear of the house,” Smith said. “One male returned back into the house. The other male jumped two fences as he was fleeing. When officers located him on the other side of the fence, he appeared to have suffered an injury to his leg.”
He added: “Just to be very clear, the injury that was sustained was not via the officers on scene. It was when the male was fleeing.”
According to the medical examiner’s office, Bailey was taken to the Grady Marcus trauma center and died there from his injuries.
His cause of death was not immediately determined, with an autopsy pending.
Reports circled on social media claiming that Bailey had been shot by police. Atlanta police confirmed that their officers never fired their weapons during the incident.
Bailey rose to prominence when he was one of the first artists signed to Future’s Freebandz label. He earned his first appearance on the Billboard Hot 100 for “Jet Lag” with Future and Juice Wrld in 2018. S: WSBTV2
RIP Young Scooter.
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) March 29, 2025
R.I.P Young Scooter 🕊️
— Chad Johnson (@ochocinco) March 29, 2025
rest in peace Young scooter 🙏🏽 🕊️
— Lloydbanks (@Lloydbanks) March 29, 2025
Long Live Young Scooter
— Casey Veggies (@CaseyVeggies) March 29, 2025
Rip Youngscooter!
— Cory Gunz (@CoryGunz) March 29, 2025
Young scooter was one of the only Atlanta rappers that everybody in the city still fucked with no matter who was beefing
— lil duval (@lilduval) March 29, 2025
