March 1, 2006

Shooting at Kanye West Concert in Birmingham England

Ugh. Glad to hear everyone will recover..

Stewards Shot During Rapper's Concert

Two stewards have been shot during a UK concert by American rapper Kanye West, police said. The workers are thought to have been attacked as a group of people were being escorted from the NEC Arena, near Solihull, West Midlands, for not having tickets to the event. Police officers were called to the incident at the front entrance to the venue shortly after 10pm last night and the stewards were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds...

In a statement, West Midlands Police said: "This incident involved individuals who had been ejected from the venue for attempting to try to gain entrance to a pop concert without tickets. "Firearms were discharged and two stewards were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds. Their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening."
Police are appealing for anyone with information about the shooting or who saw anything unusual during the concert to come forward. Kanye West was performing the last night of his five-date Touch The Sky tour in the UK..

Posted by jsmooth995 at March 1, 2006 2:58 AM

Comments

If people are getting shot at a kanye concert? Wtf, this shit gonna hang over hip hop forever.

Posted by: Eat My Shorts at March 1, 2006 4:28 AM

wow that is really close to where i am right now.

Posted by: anne at March 1, 2006 11:51 AM

Metal Detectors in UK?

Posted by: Charlie jabaley at March 1, 2006 7:02 PM

were they fighting over some crackers and tea?

Posted by: woop woop at March 1, 2006 11:11 PM

I live like 2 miles from this place

it sucks that stuff like this happens

Posted by: Amit at March 5, 2006 4:46 PM

Have they questioned Jermaine Pennant yet?

Posted by: Cuzman at March 5, 2006 7:05 PM

i went to that gig even a we left we had no idea there had been a shooting. It's the worst thing that cuda happened cos not hip-hops gona have this stereotypical shit hanging over its head. Especially at a Kanye West gig the man encourages unity and turns his back on stereotypical hip-hop. but on the other hand it was an amazing gig x

Posted by: jas at March 6, 2006 5:57 AM

getting shot at a Kanye concert is like gettin shot at a Michael Jackson concert it juss doesnt make sense but some peoples music has an affect on people kanye said touch the sky and someone took him a lil 2 serious and tried to send sum1 to heaven

Posted by: ThAaNoNyMoUs at March 12, 2006 2:41 AM

like the hip hop community cares for a sweet clean image. F-em Just hope the cops are ok and the faggots that shot them get their lashings.

Posted by: h at March 20, 2006 2:06 PM

I was there at the concert. It takes one stupid person to bring the whole name of hip hop and its reputation into the limelight again. Out of 15,000 people there, one person was selfish enough to put a dampener on the whole night.

Posted by: Messer at March 23, 2006 6:40 AM

Im goin to the jay-z concert in september!!! god im scared now!!

Posted by: Randy Mac at August 11, 2006 7:24 AM