05/17/2026
In December 2010, Magnolia Shorty was stopping by her apartment before heading to Miami, Florida to perform at a bounce music festival. When she pulled in through the gate, another car came in behind her, circled around her and blocked her in. Two men got out of the car and started shooting through the windshield. She was hit with 26 bullets and killed in the car with Jerome Hampton in the parking lot of the gated apartment complex where she lived, called the Georgetown of New Orleans, in the neighborhood of Edgelake. Police described the crime as a drive-by shooting. Her funeral was held on December 30, 2010, at the Fifth African Baptist Church in her hometown of New Orleans. Lil Wayne, B.G., Juvenile, Mack Maine and Birdman were among the more than 100 mourners at the funeral. She was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in New Orleans. In August 2014, a jury indicted four suspects on charges in the slaying of Magnolia Shorty and a rival gang member. The indictment came as a result of a federal investigation by the New Orleans FBI's Gang Task Force. On February 22, 2017, the jury in the federal trial of ten men accused of being part of the "39ers" gang found all ten guilty of a racketeering charge. At least seven of the defendants were found guilty of conspiracy to use fi****ms to further drug trafficking crimes and crimes of violence. Two of the defendants, McCoy "Rat" Walker and Terrioues "T-Red" Owney, were found guilty of the m*rders
