Atlanta rapper Dolla was shot and killed at the Beverly Center in Los Angeles this afternoon. The shooting took place in the valet area of the parking garage in the popular L.A. shopping center.

Dolla, a rapper whose real name is Roderick Anthony Burton II, was shot in the head while he and another rapper, D.J. Shabbazz, stood near the mall’s La Cienega Boulevard entrance, according to Dolla’s publicist, Sue Vannasing. A friend who was with the rappers at the Beverly Center as well as a Los Angeles Police Department source also confirmed his identity to The Times.

Burton, 21, arrived at LAX from Atlanta earlier in the day and went to the Beverly Center to do some shopping, Vannasing said. Burton apparently had a dispute with some people, perhaps at the airport, she added.

“They followed him to the mall because they knew he was coming,” Vannasing said. Los Angeles police officials could not immediately confirm or deny that account.

Dolla died at Cedars-Sinai hospital which is located directly west behind the Beverly Center.  He was in town to record his first rap album.

UPDATE: Aubrey Louis Berry Arrested for Killing Dolla