{"id":200301,"date":"2026-03-02T08:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200301\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:28:14","slug":"shots-fired-at-grand-opening-of-nipsey-hussles-new-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200301\/","title":{"rendered":"Shots Fired at Grand Opening of Nipsey Hussle&#8217;s New Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Nipsey Hussle<br \/>\n                          Shooting at Grand Opening of Late Rapper&#8217;s New Restaurant<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              March 1, 2026<br \/>\n                            7:22 PM PST\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260302_50294cef79414603b00ee04f08a2f4a6\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:243b104b-2b7b-4c94-ba78-548bee3fd6f7\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/50294cef79414603b00ee04f08a2f4a6_md.png\" alt=\"marathon burger main getty\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The opening of a new Marathon Burger &#8212; the restaurant chain founded by the late <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/nipsy-hussle\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nipsey Hussle<\/a> &#8212; was marred when shots were fired at the event &#8230; TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place in downtown Long Beach Sunday around 3:30 PM PT &#8230; and video is now circulating online which shows cops picking up a person and placing them in the back of a squad car.<\/p>\n<p>      Marathon Burger Long Beach Shooting <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Whq6TcdNcj\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Whq6TcdNcj<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/malibucastles\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@malibucastles<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/snoop-dogg\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Snoop Dogg<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/yg\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YG<\/a> attended the event, but were gone long before the shooting began.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nipsey&#8217;s brother &#8212; Blacc Sam &#8212; attended the opening of the new spot in downtown Long Beach &#8230; the end of a long weekend for him and his family.<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/d0d40285ddb9403298793e45843c42b5_md.jpg\" alt=\"022826_nipsey_hustle_kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    TMZ.com<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, he, Nipsey&#8217;s former partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/lauren-london\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren London<\/a> and several of the late rapper&#8217;s close friends gathered together while an intersection in L.A. was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/02\/28\/nipsey-hussle\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">renamed<\/a> &#8220;Nipsey Hussle Square.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nipsey was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/03\/31\/nipsey-hussle-shot-gun-los-angeles-gunned-down-store\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shot and killed<\/a> outside his Marthon Clothing Store on March 31, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Story developing &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nipsey Hussle Shooting at Grand Opening of Late Rapper&#8217;s New Restaurant Published March 1, 2026 7:22 PM PST&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[26,9864,131,133,132,100,93072],"class_list":{"0":"post-200301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-hip-hop","10":"tag-long-beach","11":"tag-long-beach-headlines","12":"tag-long-beach-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tmz-hip-hop"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}