BREAKING: Rapper Proof of D12 and friend of Eminem shot dead in MI nightclub (headshot)

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Posted: 4/11/2006 1:24:53 PM EDT

D12 Rapper Proof Slain in Detroit

Tuesday Apr 11, 2006 2:30pm EST

Rapper Proof was shot to death early Tuesday morning in Detroit, the Associated Press reports.

The performer, 30, whose real name is Deshaun Holton, was a close friend of fellow Detroit native Eminem and a member of the rap group D12. He also had a small role in Eminem's semiautobiographical movie Eight Mile.

The shooting took place outside a nightclub on Eight Mile Road and left another man in critical condition, MTV.com reports. The name of the other victim – a 35-year-old man – was not released.

According to Detroit police spokesman James Tate, both victims were shot in the head after an argument escalated into gunfire at the CCC Club.

A posting on D12's Web site, D12 Online, says, "Memorial service arrangements are still being made, and (Proof's) family and friends would appreciate privacy during this difficult time. Arrangements for fan remembrances are being planned, the details will be posted on Proof’s official site, IronFistRecords.com."

Proof, Eminem's best man from his wedding (this last one with Kim) and member of the rap group D12, was killed early Tuesday morning during a shooting at a Detroit club on Eight Mile, according to the Associated Press. The incident left another man critically injured. Both were taken to St. John Hospital where Proof, was announced dead on arrival. Proof, whose real name is DeShaun Holton, 30, was set to work on his third album.

In addition to Proof, two from Eminem's crew have been shot in the past - protégé Obie Trice was shot this past New Year's Eve on a Detroit freeway, and D12 original member Bugz was shot and killed last May during a picnic at Detroit's Belle Isle Park.

Eminem is currently going through a divorce with on-again-off-again wife Kim Mathers.

Looks like time is up for ol' Tic Tic.

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:26:25 PM EDT

[#1]

Are we supposed to recognize this guy and why should we care that he's dead?

ETA: Ok, I see you were editing while I was typing. Now I know who he is, but I still don't care.

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:26:29 PM EDT

[#2]

good riddance

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:27:58 PM EDT

[#3]

Oh lordy lordy... just make the rapper dying stop

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:29:39 PM EDT

[#4]

Ban guns, it's for the rappers.....

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:30:05 PM EDT

[#5]

Well, I don't know about you guys but I'm giving up on growing up and becoming a rapper. Maybe I'll be the first person to give my live body to science. Kinda like an organ donor with guaranteed fresh parts.

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:31:50 PM EDT

[#6]

Great! One down and lots more to go

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:32:23 PM EDT

[#7]

So what was he shot with?

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:34:16 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
So what was he shot with?

Apparently there *are* Jennings and Lorcin 9's that don't jam!!

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:36:43 PM EDT

[#9]

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:37:20 PM EDT

[#10]

Dey shot my Boo??

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:37:38 PM EDT

[#11]

This is why I listen to country.

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:39:05 PM EDT

[#12]

I guess he won't be rapping anymore. RIP.

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:39:16 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Well, I don't know about you guys but I'm giving up on growing up and becoming a rapper. Maybe I'll be the first person to give my live body to science. Kinda like an organ donor with guaranteed fresh parts.

Maybe my memory is faulty but I don't remember the Rolling Stones shooting it out with the Doobie Brothers or the Oak Ridge Boys doing drive-bys on the Temptations.

All I remember is bands dying in shitty plane crashes.

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:39:40 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:

+1

Who's got the care-o-meter? Thousands of people are slain every year and I'm sure that there are many we are going to miss a lot more than this guy. Why is this national news?

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:40:42 PM EDT

[#15]

I thought the rappers were backers of lib dem's ? , guns are a no/no with those people , WTF -- rappers are as full of Sht as the rest of the Dummycraps and hollywood , I AM SHOCKED

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:40:57 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Quoted:

+1

Who's got the care-o-meter? Thousands of people are slain every year and I'm sure that there are many we are going to miss a lot more than this guy. Why is this national news?

Because it adds to the hysteria. Guns are bad.

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:42:34 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
This is why I listen to country.

Yo Tambien,

Nothing but nice kindhearted songs like "A Boy Named Sue", Nope no knifing, atempted gun play or anything like that in Country Music

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:42:47 PM EDT

[#18]

Eminem should have been hanging out with him.

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:43:09 PM EDT

[#19]

Good, one less of those fuckers left on the earth

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:43:42 PM EDT

[#20]

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:48:17 PM EDT

[#21]

Prior to reading this story, I could have offered this up as advice, as he was on his way to the club:

"Hey, Proof. That movie you were in involved gun play and gang violence outside a club on 8 mile, and presented it as if to suggest that such things were normal and to be expected. You and your associates spend a great deal of time insulting other people through music. Many of the people you insult are likely to frequent the same clubs, and are known to be armed and associated with a criminal element. You are considering frequenting a club in an area where violence, retribution and crime and a way of life. Maybe you should stay home, huh?"

In before the rap appologists.

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:50:54 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/963911/for%20the%20homies.jpg

That car's suspension gave out and it's sitting on the pavement!

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:52:36 PM EDT

[#23]

Does this mean that they will stop playing that gawd awful noise now? Please.

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:52:37 PM EDT

[#24]

So now it's D11

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:53:11 PM EDT

[#25]

well, now he has " Street Cred' "

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:53:51 PM EDT

[#26]

Reminds me of that Chappelle skit "When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:55:25 PM EDT

[#27]

Live by de gat, you dies by de gat...They think all that talk about ho's, dope, and killing is just in fun, something to make lots of money.

"If he's so f__king smart, why is he so f__king dead?" -Jack Nicholson, Prizzi's Honor

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:59:11 PM EDT

[#28]

Urrrrrrrgh!....huuuuuhn!.......(intake of breath).......(violent struggle).....gasp!...pant!

Nope... no matter how hard I try to care... it just wont happen.....

Worms gotta eat... same as buzzards... they can wrastle their hash on his worthless hide...

Dram out

Posted: 4/11/2006 1:59:48 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
well, now he has " Street Cred' "

BET is probably already rolling 90 minute tributes to his 'musical genius' and how he was such 'a saint'

Posted: 4/11/2006 2:01:30 PM EDT

[#30]

Somebody shot Proof in da toof!

Posted: 4/11/2006 2:03:06 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Quoted:
This is why I listen to country.

Yo Tambien,

Nothing but nice kindhearted songs like "A Boy Named Sue", Nope no knifing, atempted gun play or anything like that in Country Music

the point is, country artists don't go round shooting each other and getting shot by other country folks in clubs.

too bad the shooter didn't do us all a favor and shoot the other D11.

Posted: 4/11/2006 2:03:41 PM EDT

[#32]

No longer a "homie" but a "deadie". =WORD=

Posted: 4/11/2006 2:06:30 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
Somebody shot Proof in da toof!

www.durf.org/log/archives/huge_manatee.jpg

Posted: 4/11/2006 2:08:30 PM EDT

[#34]

He had his CCW, that prolly wouldn't have happened.

Posted: 4/11/2006 2:08:40 PM EDT

[#35]

This ones for my homies!

Posted: 4/11/2006 2:08:50 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
So now it's D11

Actually, it'd be D10. There are (were) six members of the group, and each one had a self given alter-ego (i.e. Marshall Mathers = Slim Shady). 6 x 2 = 12.

Not that any of you care about that, though. I find it saddening that you delight in the death of others.

Posted: 4/11/2006 2:09:09 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
Oh lordy lordy... just make the rapper dying stop

Posted: 4/11/2006 2:09:38 PM EDT

[#38]

BOOM! HEADSHOT!

Posted: 4/11/2006 2:12:52 PM EDT

[#39]

....not

Posted: 4/11/2006 2:15:42 PM EDT

[#40]

I'm waiting on the Cunthia Mckinny press conference.

Posted: 4/11/2006 2:21:21 PM EDT

[#41]

Didn't Esteban and Pat Boone shoot it out one time? Or was it Roy Rogers and Real McCoys?

Posted: 4/11/2006 2:26:10 PM EDT

[#42]

Somebody killed another rapper...
in a nightclub...
witha gun...

SARAH, get your ugly mug in here and start dancing in the blood!!!

Oh, you ain't shit to say do ya', punk ass bitch!!

Posted: 4/11/2006 2:26:19 PM EDT

[#43]

I hate rap

Posted: 4/11/2006 2:29:06 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
Somebody killed another rapper...
in a nightclub...
witha gun...

Uh oh, you think... it... was...

?

ETA: TOTALLY SWEET SHOOTING:

Yo Homie! That my briefcase? Right click, Save-as...

Posted: 4/11/2006 2:31:13 PM EDT

[#45]

Someone think he was a zombie?

Posted: 4/11/2006 2:31:55 PM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:

the point is, country artists don't go round shooting each other and getting shot by other country folks in clubs.

Now why could that be

Posted: 4/11/2006 2:33:25 PM EDT

[#47]

Glad to hear it!
How many more to go?

Posted: 4/11/2006 2:34:44 PM EDT

[#48]

Quoted:
Quoted:

the point is, country artists don't go round shooting each other and getting shot by other country folks in clubs.

Now why could that be

cause they're too busy tryin' to get back their dog their woman and their truck that done left them!