Waka Flocka Tour Bus Hit With Gunfire

Waka Flocka Flame should be counting his blessings as he has survived yet another shooting incident (February 16th), as his tour bus was shot at four times while traveling in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The Atlanta rapper sustained no injuries, but was detained for a short while after the incident. Waka Flocka's bus was hit four times and per TMZ, members of Waka Flocka Flame’s security team fired back at the assailants, managing to hit one of them in the shoulder.

The shootout occurred while Waka’s tour bus was parked outside of a stereo shop, awaiting a stereo installation. Two cars pulled up on the stationary vehicle and opened fire.

Waka sent a note out to fans on Twitter, advising that he was fine.
“To my fans N world, I’m good nothing is wrong with my health,” he tweeted. “See yall in Cali for all-star #im1realassperson.”

This isn’t the first time Waka Flocka has been involved in gunfire incidents. Last year the rapper was shot in the arm while fighting at a carwash in Georgia over his jewelry. And late last year Waka Flocka was arrested after a raid at his home that also netted his friend and rap mentor Gucci Mane.

The rapper, his brother and another person -- someone not involved in Waka Flocka's entourage -- were briefly detained and questioned after the shooting outside the Car Stereo Warehouse in east Charlotte, according to Fox and other Charlotte television stations.

Waka Flocka, the alias of Juaquin James Malphurs, spent two days in a Henry County jail in January after turning himself in to authorities. He was booked on charges including drug and weapons possession, as well as criminal street gang activity and a probation violation, according to jail records.

In December, police arrested two people at Malphurs' Henry County home for possession of a minor amount of marijuana. The rapper wasn't home at the time but still was charged.

He was arrested in Houston County last March for leaving Georgia for a concert, which violated his probation from a 2006 incident. At the time, he pleaded guilty to possession of a sawed-off shotgun and received four years' probation, according to the Houston County Superior Court Clerk's office.

"Why would I rap and go try to street gang bang? That's hustling backwards" Waka told a radio station at the time. "Why would I wanna rap all around the world and then go hit the streets and gang bang? I'm a rapper, I'm not a [gang-banger.] How can you gang bang and be a rapper? I don't understand that," he said. "I would love to find out where their information is coming from. I  can't wait."

Mexico City Shooting Aimed at New Police Headquarters

Mexico Shootin Aimed Directly at The Police

MEXICO CITY — The entire police force of a small northern Mexican town quit after gunmen attacked their recently inaugurated headquarters, according to local reports on Wednesday.

Los Ramones Mayor Santos Salinas said nobody was injured in Monday night's attack, during which gunmen fired more than 1,000 bullets at the building's facade, according to Noroeste newspaper's website. Six grenades, of which three detonated, were also flung at the building, the newspaper reported.

"Fortunately, those who were inside the building threw themselves on the ground and nobody was hurt," Salinas told the newspaper.

All 14 members of the force reportedly resigned Tuesday. Nobody answered the phones at Salinas' offices, according to The Associated Press.

The new police headquarters had been inaugurated three days earlier.

Los Ramones is in Nuevo Leon, a state torn by fighting between the Gulf and Zetas drug gangs. Police stations in small northeastern Mexican towns are frequently attacked, and several mayors have been assassinated.

Mexico's ill-equipped municipal forces often quit after cartel attacks. President Felipe Calderon has proposed eliminating Mexico's municipal forces and replacing them with one force per state.

According to Salinas, at 9:30 p.m. on Monday unknown assailants arrived at the police station and launched a 20-minute attack, Noroeste reported. Police backup arrived shortly after.

While the mayor had not received threats leading up to the attack, police earlier noticed suspicious men driving luxury pickups in the area, the newspaper reported. Fearing a strike, policemen lined up their patrol cars in front of the building in order to create a barricade, the newspaper added.

It was the second attack in less than a week against police installations in the state of Nuevo Leon. On Oct. 19, two grenades were thrown at a police shelter in the town of Sabinas Hidalgo, Noroeste reported.

The Associated Press reported.