Crime Los Angeles rapper Indian Red Boy killed on Instagram Live

Los Angeles rapper Indian Red Boy killed on Instagram Live​

Biba Adams
Tue, July 13, 2021

The rapper was talking with a friend on the social media platform when he was ambushed

A rapper in the Los Angeles area was talking with a friend on Instagram Live when he was ambushed in front of viewers, his murder broadcast over the social media network.

Zerail Dijon Rivera, who performed under the name Indian Red Boy, was killed Thursday in Hawthorne. In a press release, the Hawthorne Police Department said they responded to a shooting call at a multi-level gated apartment complex on South Chadron Avenue to find “a 21-year-old male slumped in the front seat of a vehicle parked in the carport to the rear of the building.”

“He appeared to be suffering from multiple gunshot wounds,” officials added.

“Los Angeles County Fire Rescue responded to the location where the male was pronounced deceased.”

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Zerail “Indian Red Boy” Rivera, a rapper in the Los Angeles area, was talking with a friend on Instagram Live Thursday when he was ambushed in front of viewers, his murder broadcast over the social media network. (Instagram)More

Detectives are investigating Rivera’s death and are asking for assistance from the community to identify a suspect. In their press release, Hawthorne law enforcement shared a link to the young man’s murder. TheGrio is not sharing the footage due to its graphic nature.
In the captured video, at least 12 shots were fired.

Rivera’s friend, social media influencer Kapone, who was on the Instagram Live with him, can be heard asking, “What the f**k? Bro, what the f**k? Where you at?”


The targetted man — who has more than 35,000 followers on Instagram — is then seen mouthing “Help” repeatedly to the camera before whispering, “I’m in Hawthorne.” He dropped his camera seconds later, and the live stream ended.

“It appears to have been a walk-up shooting, and he appears to have been targeted,” Lt. Ti Goetz told The Daily Breeze.

The rapper’s death appears to be gang-related. Indian Red Boy claimed affiliation with the Bloods. Several videos on YouTube appear to show him disrespecting late rapper Nipsey Hussle, including one of him allegedly vandalizing a mural of the venerated MC. Hussle was known to be Crip-affiliated.

Article archive

Spoiler: I think these are the videos

I’m going to archive but I’m ok if you do it before I do because I don’t know how long they’d be up. Edit Damn it they’re already down..

 

[NyQuilninja]

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Theres two videos? Whats in the second one?

They were the same but one was more edited.

Might want to archive this:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=K9bbRWdKKhE

Here is the video. Seems like a neck shot.

X00iOCIUmYqoHHJF.mp4

this is an archive link of the YouTube comment section. That way they’re not lost along with the video of Google decides to take it down.

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Having read the comment section… Is it just me or do a lot of gangsters and people who fetishize them feel like larpers when compared to criminals from poorer countries? Like cartels will chop you and your family up and then dispose of your corpses by putting them in empanadas which they hand out to the poor.. like they don’t seem all that calculated, organized, or professional.

 

[BoobWhiskers]

Raised my eyebrows at the name. Imagine literally any other race giving themselves a stage name of like, Negro Black Man and not getting publically tarred and feathered.

 

[thx1138]

Seriously though, do gang-bangers get extra street cred if they take out an enemy rapper? Are rappers high-value targets (HVTs) in gang wars? Is there a strategic advantage to neutralizing the enemy rappers?
I have so many questions regarding this phenomenon.

They're higher level, so more XP.

 

[LaxerBRO]

Should have spent all that hard eared rapper money to armor his car. Against handguns it would have only cost 30K for the armor package by itself

 

[Zero Day Defense]

Seriously though, do gang-bangers get extra street cred if they take out an enemy rapper? Are rappers high-value targets (HVTs) in gang wars? Is there a strategic advantage to neutralizing the enemy rappers?
I have so many questions regarding this phenomenon.

If you take out the bards, you kill enemy morale and buff/debuff capacities.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Having read the comment section… Is it just me or do a lot of gangsters and people who fetishize them feel like larpers when compared to criminals from poorer countries? Like cartels will chop you and your family up and then dispose of your corpses by putting them in empanadas which they hand out to the poor.. like they don’t seem all that calculated, organized, or professional.

Yes:
"Think you gangster, popped a few rounds?
These kids'll come through and murder a whole town,
Then sit back and smoke and watch it burn down...." - Lupe Fiasco, Little Weapon

 

[Shiversblood]

Raised my eyebrows at the name. Imagine literally any other race giving themselves a stage name of like, Negro Black Man and not getting publically tarred and feathered.

Did you not watch the video? Something even worse happened than being publically tarred and feathered. He was publically executed. I don’t know about you but I would consider that worse.

 

[Muh Vagina]

Use. The. Megathread.

 

[robobobo]

Poor guy. Last moments bleeding out in terror while trying to talk to his friend. Would've been more merciful if he'd taken the shot to his head.

 

[StraightShooter2]

They were the same but one was more edited.


this is an archive link of the YouTube comment section. That way they’re not lost along with the video of Google decides to take it down.

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Having read the comment section… Is it just me or do a lot of gangsters and people who fetishize them feel like larpers when compared to criminals from poorer countries? Like cartels will chop you and your family up and then dispose of your corpses by putting them in empanadas which they hand out to the poor.. like they don’t seem all that calculated, organized, or professional.

Some of them may have some actual "gangsta creds" (e.x. 50 Cent supposedly was a drug dealer in his teens and was shot 9 times), but I'm sure that much of their stage persona and "feuds" is heavily invented - much akin to pro-wrestlers.

 

[Absolutetense]

Poor guy. Last moments bleeding out in terror while trying to talk to his friend. Would've been more merciful if he'd taken the shot to his head.

They always regret that shit when it's too late for them. A second before that "that's what's up cuz".
One less fucko to worry about.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Use. The. Megathread.

I didn’t see it or knew it existed when I made the thread otherwise I would’ve. It didn’t pop up under the similar threads tab like some other threads do.

 

[Snekposter]

I'm sure that much of their stage persona and "feuds" is heavily invented

Yeah, so heavily invented they constantly get shot and killed by rivals. The only living rappers are the ones that stay the fuck away from the shit happening on the streets.

That said, this man was clearly appropriating and insulting Native American culture with a name like that, so I will not mourn him dying to colonialist bullets like so many of the brave Natives he mocked with his stage name.

 

[NoSpiceLife]

Poor guy. Last moments bleeding out in terror while trying to talk to his friend. Would've been more merciful if he'd taken the shot to his head.

Yep, that was fucking horrible to listen to, and watch him start to bleed out the mouth, nose, etc. No matter how horrible a person is, having to watch and listen to them die, is something only psychopaths would find joy in.

 

[TV's Adam West]

Dude was mad talented. I don't even have to read the article to know it was some MAGA white boy out there doing god's work.


Fucking hell, first you savages killed Biggie, then Pac, XXX and any other talented rapper just to ensure we don't have anything to be proud of.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Poor guy. Last moments bleeding out in terror while trying to talk to his friend. Would've been more merciful if he'd taken the shot to his head.

It isn't just bleeding out, the guy choked to death on his own blood (insert Bloods joke here). I doubt it's a mistake they shot him in the neck instead of the head.

 

[SITHRAK!]

You see a dead rapper, I see a dead astronaut, lawyer, heart surgeon...

 

[Desu Vult]

Should have spent all that hard eared rapper money to armor his car. Against handguns it would have only cost 30K for the armor package by itself

Shoulda kept his head on a swivel like a real gangster would, and not let the other party get in unnoticed. Twelve shots for that, holy incompetent fuck. I really don't understand the black US gangsta culture. it's kinda like some LARP but they're actually dying for it.

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

I like how these Soundcloud rappers/basketball-Americans purge themselves, saving all those evil White Supremacists that are hiding behind every corner the time and effort of doing it themselves.