Atlanta Police Major Keith Meadows said Saturday there have been no arrests and “we’re still talking to people, but the truth is we don’t know exactly what happened.” Meadow said 13 to 20 people were in the building when the shooting occurred, around 5:30 p.m.
Investigators were still piecing together the sequence of events. Meadows said that Hamilton got into a "verbal altercation" before the video shoot and the person he was arguing with pulled out a pistol and shot Hamilton once in the chest.
Meadows said Saturday it's not clear whether the argument was over the video.
"Right now we're just trying to....identify who may have seen what, really just trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together," Meadows said. "It seems everybody witnessed something very different. We're just trying to go back and make sense of everything."
Police have not recovered the handgun that was used.
Hamilton, who lives in metro Atlanta, was an emerging rap star with growing connections in the industry. Music news website HipHopDX reported Saturday Dunkin was a childhood friend of Waka Flocka Flame and appeared on Gucci Mane and Waka's "Ferrari Boyz" album released over the summer.
Another industy website, TheBoomBox, reported that the Brick Squad affiliate was to appear in the "Push Ups" video for Mane and V-Nasty when he was shot.
Fans posted a memorial Facebook page, “Rest In Peace Slim Dunkin,” where comments were posted Saturday.
“Life is so cruel, people don't give a dam [sic] about no one not even themselves, you got people crying, because people are dying," read one. Read another: " “It shows you that you can't trust a soul on this planet one min you with that person next you at there funeral."
