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Candles and a photo on display as part of a memorial outside the store owned by rapper and entrepreneur Nipsey Hussle, who was killed there in a shooting on Sunday. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

Candles and a photo on display as part of a memorial outside the store owned by rapper and entrepreneur Nipsey Hussle, who was killed there in a shooting on Sunday.

Updated at 5:35 p.m. ET

On Tuesday afternoon, the LAPD announced that it has arrested Eric Holder, a 29-year-old Los Angeles man whom authorities have identified as the suspect in the Sunday killing of rapper and entrepreneur Nipsey Hussle on Sunday afternoon.

The suspect was first arrested by police in the city of Bellflower in Los Angeles County, the LAPD confirmed to NPR.

According to a police statement issued on Monday, it is believed that Holder walked up to three men in front of Marathon Clothing, the 33-year-old musician's store in the Crenshaw area of South Los Angeles, and fired numerous times at them. Holder then allegedly fled the shooting as the passenger in a white 2016 Chevy Cruze driven by an unidentified woman. The LAPD told NPR on Tuesday afternoon that it had no updates on the woman driving the car.

At a press conference held Tuesday morning that included L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti and LAPD chief Michel Moore, Moore said that based on video evidence and witness statements, Holder allegedly spoke to Nipsey Hussle, left the area and then came back with a gun. He added that the police believes there was some kind of dispute between Nipsey Hussle and Holder, but declined to characterize the nature of the argument. (Moore later said, in answering a question from the media, that the LAPD believes that Holder is a gang member and Nipsey Hussle's past gang activity is known but Moore declined to say that the killing was in any way gang-related.)

The Grammy-nominated Nipsey Hussle, born Ermias Asghedom, died from his wounds. A longtime community philanthropist and activist, he had been scheduled to meet Tuesday with L.A. police commissioner Steve Soboroff and Moore about ways to help stop gang violence. "I'm very sad," Soboroff wrote on Twitter.

Meanwhile, there was a stampede at a memorial vigil held for Nipsey Hussle Monday evening. At the Tuesday press conference, Michel Moore said that someone in the crowd who was armed either brandished or displayed a gun, and that another person attempted to disarm him to protect the crowd.

Moore posted on Twitter Monday night that 13 people sustained injuries as attendees fled; 12 were treated onsite. Multiple news outlets later reported that, per the Los Angeles Fire Department, at least 19 people were injured. Most of those were injured by falls, sprains and being cut by glass; Moore said that some in the crowd were throwing glass at the police. One person was reportedly stabbed.

Police monitor a roadblock in front of the late Nipsey Hussle's The Marathon Store in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Authorities announced the arrest of the shooting suspect in the rapper's death. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

Police monitor a roadblock in front of the late Nipsey Hussle's The Marathon Store in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Authorities announced the arrest of the shooting suspect in the rapper's death.

The chaos in the crowd was frightening. "Tonight was the first night in a while that I honestly felt scared on the job," ABC7 reporter Veronica Miracle wrote on Twitter. "Babies were screaming, people were shoving themselves under our @ABC7 news van for cover while crying, people were trampled. My heart hurts for everyone who came here to mourn @NipseyHussle's death."

Chief Moore also posted on Monday evening that Nipsey Hussle's death was one of 26 shootings and 10 homicides that have occurred in Los Angeles in the week since March 24.

"That's 36 families left picking up the pieces," Moore wrote on Twitter. "We will work aggressively with our community to quell this senseless loss of life."

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LOS ANGELES (FOX 11) - Los Angeles police arrested a 29-year-old man wanted in connection to the murder of rapper Nipsey Hussle.

Eric Holder was arrested Tuesday in connection to Sundays shooting death of the rapper outside The Marathon clothing store in South Los Angeles, police said.

Eric Holder, the suspected killer of Nipsey Hussle, has been arrested and is in police custody.Thank you to both our community for the heightened awareness/vigilance, and our partners at @LASDHQ, the Los Angeles Police Department posted on Twitter.

According to authorities, around 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, a member of the publiccalled the police to report seeing a person they believed to be Eric Holder in the 9900 block of Artesia Boulevard in Bellflower.

Los Angeles County Sheriff deputies responded and detained the man. South Bureau Homicide detectives responded to Lakewood Sheriffs Station and confirmed the person is Eric Holder.Holder was transported to a Los Angeles Police Department facility and will be booked for murder.

During a press conference Tuesday, Los Angeles police Chief Michel Moore said the fatal shooting involved a personal dispute between Hussle and Holder and was not gang violence.

Moore told reporters that Holder and Hussle knew each other, but Moore did not disclose any details about the nature of the dispute.

Investigators said the suspect repeatedly came up to Hussle and spoke with him, then returned with a gun and opened fire before fleeing in a car driven by an unidentified woman.

Hussle was one of three men shot outside The Marathon clothing store. He was pronounced dead at the hospital, while the other two men were in stable condition.

During the press conference, Moore called on Holder to go to a police station and turn himself in, adding that he was confident the suspect was watching.

Hussle, whose real name was Ermias Asghedom, was an Eritrean-American father of two who was engaged to actress Lauren London.

Born on Aug. 15, 1985, Hussle said his first passion was music but getting resources was tough after leaving his mother's house at 14 to live with his grandmother. He said he got involved in street life as he tried to support himself, and he joined the gang Rollin 60's Neighborhood Crips as a teenager.

His hip-hop friends and other stars, including Rihanna and Snoop Dogg, mourned on social media.

"This doesn't make any sense! My spirit is shaken by this!," Rihanna wrote while posting photos of Hussle with his daughter and another with his fiance. "Dear God may His spirit Rest In Peace and May You grant divine comfort to all his loved ones! I'm so sorry this happened to you @nipseyhussle."

The Los Angeles police chief said he was devastated by the killing of Hussle, who was shot a day before they were to have a meeting about the relationship between police and the inner city.

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Tuesdays press conference was held hours after a disturbance at a memorial for Hussle that left at least 19 people injured, including two people taken to local hospitals in critical condition.

Dozens of police officers cleared the memorial site after a fight apparently broke outand a stampede ensued.

Anyone with further information about the case was asked to call LAPD's South Bureau Homicide detectives at 323-786-5100 or Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.

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A vigil to honor the slain rapper turned violent on Monday leaving one person stabbed and many injured. Harrison Hill, USA TODAY

The Los Angeles Police Department has released the name of a suspect in the shooting death of rapper Nipsey Hussle.

Police have identified the suspect as Eric Holder, tweeting, "Eric Holder is wanted for Homicide in the shooting of Nipsey Hussle. He was last seen in a 2016 white 4 door Chevy Cruze CA license plate 7RJD742. Anyone with information related to his whereabouts or this deadly shooting is urged to contact South Bureau Homicide at 323-786-5100."

Hussledied from gunshot wounds of the head and torso, the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner said Monday.

The rapper's autopsy was completed Monday and his deathwas certified a homicide.

Hussle, the 33-year-old rapper, whose real name wasErmias Asghedom,was shot multiple times outsidehis South Los Angeles apparel store, The Marathon Clothing, around 3:20 p.m. PDT Sunday and pronounceddead at the hospital.

By Monday, hundreds of people had gathered in front of the store to pay their respects. A memorial of candles, flowers and paintings took shape, and some of Hussle's songs blared through speakers. But after nightfallthe crowd grew violent, and a stabbing contributed to a massive stampede, with at least 19 peopleinjured.

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On Tuesday morning Police Chief Michel R. Moore "will address the surge in violence in the city of Los Angeles and there will be an update on the murder investigation of Nipsey Hussle," according to the LAPD's website.

Meanwhile, a confab Hussle had requested with the Los Angeles Police Commissionon how to stop gang violence, previously set for Monday,is being rescheduled in the rapper's honor, Steve Soboroff, president of the commission, told NBC Newsand ABC News.USA TODAY has reached out to the commissioner's office.

Soboroffrevealed earlier Monday that he and Moore had aMonday meeting scheduled with Hussle and Jay-Z's record label,Roc Nation, "to talk about ways he could help stop gang violence and help us help kids," he tweeted."Im so very sad."

A native of Crenshaw, Hussle was widely admired forhis community-building and investment in local businesses, public schools and in young adults learning coding and other tech skills.

"I'll remember the beauty that he saw in our community. And the beauty that he was. He loved us," film director Ava DuVernay tweeted. "He's left that love with us. And it cannot die. Rest in Power, King. You mattered."

Born on Aug. 15, 1985, Hussle said his first passion was music, but getting resources was tough after leaving his mother's house at 14 to live with his grandmother. He said he got involved in street life as he tried to support himself, and he joined the gang Rollin 60s Neighborhood Crips as a teenager.

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I grew up in gang culture, Hussle told The Los Angeles Times in 2018. We dealt with death, with murder. It was like living in a war zone, where people die on these blocks and everybody is a little bit immune to it. I guess they call it post-traumatic stress, when you have people that have been at war for such a long time. I think L.A. suffers from that because its not normal yet we embrace it like it is after a while.

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Contributing: Susan Haas, Carly Mallenbaum, The Associated Press

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London Friday was meant to be the day Britain formally ceased to be a member of the European Union. But three years after the public referendum calling for the divorce, the two sides appeared no closer to agreeingon an amicable separation. Even Britain has yet to figure out what it wants.

British lawmakers have made it abundantly clear, however, what they don't want: the hard-won draft "Brexit" plan that Prime Minister Theresa May negotiated with the EU. On Friday afternoon, Parliament rejected for a third time May's withdrawal deal, or at least the most elemental part of it: the legal withdrawal agreement.

The vote leaves the U.K. closer to a possible "crash out" of the European Union on April 12 with no deal in place risking a dramatic impact on the British economy. Or Britain could seek a much longer delay to the process from the EU.

May's government stripped out all of the "political agreement" aspect of her draft deal to bring it to a vote on Friday because she has been forbidden by the legislature from bringing the exact same deal back for a third vote.

But it wasn't just that she needed to present an altered plan for a vote; she also knew the devil was in the details.

Nobody really knows for sure. Lawmakers will gather again on Monday to hold another series of votes on a range of alternative plans to May's. But they tried that just days ago and not one of the eight options put forward gained majority backing from lawmakers.

As CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips reported from Parliament on Friday, there is no clear path to Brexit.

"I fear we are reaching the limits of this process in this house," May herself noted immediately after losing the vote. But she vowed to "continue to press the case for an orderly Brexit."

Calls were made quickly, however, for May to step down, and the prospect of a new general election was also rising.

There are still huge differences of opinion in London over key aspects of how any divorce should work, most notably how to keep goods and people flowing smoothly across the border between Northern Ireland (part of Britain) and Ireland (an independent nation and EU member). The small frontier is the only land border between the U.K. and the EU, and it has essentially been an invisible line for decades, since peace was restored after years of sectarian violence on the island; "The Troubles."

On Wednesday, May even offered to resign the premiership if lawmakers backed her deal, but the concession didn't work. She lost by 58 votes.

The Prime Minister may now seek another, longer extension to Britain's exit from the EU, but it isn't clear if May will be allowed to remain in power long enough to continue driving the process not that a new general election would bring any near-term certainty to the Brexit fiasco.

There were also mounting calls after Friday's vote for an outright revocation of the "Article 50" measure that the U.K. filed under EU law, officially putting the Brexit process in motion. Some Members of Parliament want Article 50 revoked to give the British legislature more time to find a consensus plan. Others want it revoked to simply stop the process, and possibly not resume it.

EU leaders said right after the vote that it had made a "no-deal" Brexit even more likely, and they reissued their call for Britain's lawmakers to decide on and then tell the other 27 members states what they want.

"The risk of a no-deal Brexit is very real," Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte told journalists right after the vote in London. "One of the two routes to an orderly Brexit seems now to be closed. This leaves only the other route, which is for the British to make clear what they want before April 12."

Poland's prime minister said before the vote that the European Union was open to further extending Britain's departure from the bloc. Premier Mateusz Morawiecki told reporters, after talks with EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, that if May's bid in the House of Commons failed, the EU was "open to extending the departure process" on a motion from London, by "six or nine or 12 months, these options are available." But they only want to do that if it looks like such a delay will yield progress at breaking the deadlock in London.

In a statement released on Friday, the European Commission said: "As per the European Council (Article 50) decision on 22 March, the period provided for in Article 50(3) is extended to 12 April. It will be for the UK to indicate the way forward before that date, for consideration by the European Council. A "no-deal" scenario on 12 April is now a likely scenario."

Many Brexit backers in Britain, including in May's own Conservative Party, would be loathe to see the process dragged out much longer, fearing it could lead to death-by-delay of the mandate given by the public in the 2016 referendum.

Retired charity worker Mandy Childs, one of a band of hard-core Brexit supporters who walked across England to London under the slogan "Leave Means Leave," said she felt "heartbroken."

"We were told over a 100 times by a British prime minister that we would be leaving on the 29th of March, 2019," she said.

"To do that, promise the British people that and then say 'Actually, no, we need to just put it back' absolute betrayal. And how dare she?"

Opinion polls have shown that since the referendum, as the complexities of the divorce have become apparent and the "Vote Leave" campaign has come under mounting criticism for its tactics during the run-up to the public vote, the tide has likely turned, and a thin majority now appears to be against leaving the EU at all.

Indeed hundreds of people did join the "March to Leave" rally that trooped through central London on Friday, but the numbers were dwarfed by a huge demonstration in the British capital over the weekend, demanding a second public vote, with many rejecting any Brexit at all.

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After World War II the countries of western Europe wanted to avoid future wars. Some leaders thought that having their countries work together would help.

In 1952 six countriesFrance, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourgformed the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). The ECSC brought together the countries coal and steel businesses. It was a success.

The ECSC countries then looked for other ways to cooperate. In 1958 they set up the European Atomic Energy Community (also called Euratom) to produce nuclear power together. They also formed the European Economic Community (EEC). The EEC worked to get rid of taxes and rules that limited trade in Europe.

The ECSC, Euratom, and the EEC merged in 1967 to form the European Communities (EC). More countries joined the EC in the 1970s and 1980s. The EC was so successful in economic matters that its members started working together in other ways as well. In 1991 the members agreed to form the European Union. The EU was officially created in 1993. The EU added more members in the years that followed.

The EU currency, or form of money, is called the euro. It was introduced in 1999. Most member countries switched from their own currencies to the euro.

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