Rapper fatally shot while speaking with friend on Instagram Live: report

A rapper based in Los Angeles was shot multiple times and his death was recorded on video.

Just after 4 p.m. July 8, police responded to a shooting call in Hawthorne, a city in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

When officers arrived, they discovered Zerail Rivera, 21, slumped in the front driver’s side seat of a vehicle parked in a carport located in the back of a building. Emergency responders declared him dead at the scene.

At the time he was shot, Rivera, whose stage name was Indian Red Boy, was speaking with his friend via Instagram Live, People reported.

"It appears to have been a walk-up shooting and he appears to have been targeted," Hawthorne police Lieutenant Ti Goetz told Daily Breeze, noting the victim’s murder may have been gang-related.

Anyone with information pertaining to the shooting is asked to contact Hawthorne police at (310) 349-2727.