Canadian rapper Smoke Dawg shot dead

Canadian rapper Smoke Dawg has been shot dead here in an incident which left another man and a woman injured.

Smoke was 21. “Multiple shots” were fired in the Entertainment District of the city on Saturday evening, police said, reports independent.co.uk.

One of the two male victims succumbed to his injuries, the Toronto Police Operations Centre said on Twitter. Two suspects may have fled in a black SUV or a white car, it added.

Mustafa the Poet, a Canadian spoken word artist, announced the news of his friend’s death on Twitter. He wrote: “Smokey is gone, may our prayers follow him to heaven.”

Smoke Dawg’s death comes just weeks after XXXTentacion, a US rapper, was shot dead in Florida.