LOS ANGELES—An alley next to the site of where the late rapper Nipsey Hussle was murdered in South Los Angeles will be closed temporarily to mitigate what the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) described as continuous and violent crime in the area.
The city council voted July 29 to shut down the alley near the intersection of Slauson Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard, for up to 18 months. Concrete barriers could be added at the alley’s entrance and midpoint.
A mural of Hussle, who was fatally shot in 2019 outside his Marathon Clothing Store, was put up adjacent to the alley following his death. Last year, LAPD Chief Michel Moore described a “spike in crime” in the area since the mural’s installment….