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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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Feb. 13, 2019, 5:50 AM GMT

By Dennis Romero and Vaughn Hillyard

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced late Tuesday that he'll decide on a 2020 presidential run in about three weeks.

He made the remarks to reporters outside the Harkin Institute for Public Policy and Citizen Engagement at Iowa's Drake University, where he had just engaged in a 90-minute discussion on redistricting and voter rights with Marsha Ternus, former chief justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

"I'm going to decide if Im going to try to find that space within the next month or so," he said.

The key questions, Holder said, are "whether you have the vision, the experience, the ability to inspire others to deal with the issues of the day. So Im going to sit down you know with my family, you know, very soon."

NPR reported earlier Tuesday that Holder would decide whether to join the already crowded Democratic Party field for president in about two week's time. Pressed for a time frame Tuesday night, Holder said that it would be "closer to three than four" weeks.

He said he was not in Iowa its influential Democratic caucus is scheduled for Feb. 3, 2020 to measure support among party influencers. In fact, he said, the Harkin Institute discussion had been scheduled for fall but was postponed.

"I met with some party leaders but not to discuss that, no," he said. "This is really just kind of a Drake University visit."

Holder said he has spoken to former President Barack Obama, whom he served under, about the decision he faces in March, but he wouldn't reveal any advice.

Asked if he has urged former Vice President Joe Biden to run, Holder said, "I think Joe Biden was a great senator, a great vice president."

"I worked with him on important domestic issues," he said. "I sat with him in the situation room. You know, I think that his would be a good voice to have as part of this primary process. But you know, I would totally respect his decision if he decides not to become involved, but I would hope that he would."

Dennis Romero writes for NBC News and is based in Los Angeles.

Vaughn Hillyard is a political reporter for NBC News.

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Former Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tenn., in April 2018.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder travels to Iowa on Tuesday as he weighs whether to join a growing field of Democrats seeking the presidential nomination in 2020, and he's expected to make a decision in the next two weeks, NPR has learned.

Holder, who served for six years under former President Barack Obama, will make a decision on a White House run in the next two weeks. Meanwhile, the speech he plans to give at Drake University Law School in Des Moines certainly sounds like the building blocks of a possible campaign with a heavy condemnation of President Trump.

"We should be dissatisfied with an administration rife with corruption, stunning incompetence, and shameful intolerance," Holder will say in his speech, according to prepared remarks. "Most of all, we should be dissatisfied by that same administration's total abdication of moral and policy leadership and its failure to address the many other urgent challenges we face: A democracy that's under attack. A climate crisis that's ignored. And racial and cultural divisions that are weaponized and exploited for political gain."

Holder will recall his visits before to Iowa in 2007 "on behalf of a long-shot presidential candidate who had inspired me with his optimism and his vision for our country." And the former attorney general will talk about his upbringing the grandson of immigrants from Barbados and son a of a World War II veteran and the racial discrimination he and his family faced throughout the years.

"I am dissatisfied just as so many of you are dissatisfied with the inequities that continue to divide us, the injustices all around us, and the refusal of some elected leaders to rise to this defining moment," Holder will say. "That's why I cannot be silent and I hope you won't be silent as our nation confronts this time of challenge and consequence."

Should Holder choose to mount a 2020 presidential run, it would be the first bid for elective office by the career prosecutor, who served as deputy attorney general under President Bill Clinton and then assumed the top job under Obama, when he became the nation's first African-American attorney general. While leading the Justice Department, he made civil rights and voting rights a major focus.

When Holder first floated the possibility of a White House bid last year, it took many by surprise. Since leaving the Obama administration in 2015, he rejoined a private law practice and also chaired the new National Democratic Redistricting Committee, designed to help Democratic candidates in key state races and to challenge gerrymandering ahead of 2020 redistricting and reapportionment.

Holder will talk about that work and the importance of voting rights and an accurate census count during his speech Tuesday.

"Intolerance and cynicism may appear to be gaining strength but that's simply not the case when our elections are fair and the true spirit of our people is accurately reflected," the former attorney general will say. "The bad news is that in far too many places elections are not fair. The system is being rigged by politicians who are willing to bend or break the rules in order to stay in power."

If he runs for president, the fact he was the first sitting Cabinet member in history to be held in contempt of Congress over his role in the bungled gun-trafficking operation known as "Fast and Furious" is sure to be brought up.

He also helped Democratic candidates in the 2018 midterm elections, though he stirred controversy for saying "When they go low, we kick 'em" while on the campaign trail in Georgia a riff on former first lady Michelle Obama's 2016 mantra "When they go low, we go high." Holder later had to clarify he wasn't advocating violence.

Holder seems to make a possible allusion to that sentiment in his remarks, closing with a push for change.

"Together, we must call out and throw out public officials who seek power by bringing out the worst in us. Now in that effort we must seek civility but not at the expense of truth telling or the protection of treasured principles," Holder will say. "The fact is: America is at its best when we face difficult questions and hard truths. America is at its best when we open our arms and widen the circle of opportunity for everyone who loves this country enough to make it their home."

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