Details Emerge About Oakland Rapper, Cabbie Killed In Vegas. Kenny Cherry was an aspiring rapper who moved from the Bay Area to Las Vegas to pursue his career. His music videos online show him cruising the Strip in his Maserati. Taxi driver Michael Boldon was a family man who hailed from Michigan; and his passenger, Sandra Sutton-Wasmund, came from a loving Washington state family and was well regarded the community. The lives of the three ended in violence normally seen only in movies:gunfire, a fiery crash and an explosion before dawn Thursday on the neon-lit Las Vegas Strip. As investigators Friday tried to find the gunman in a black Range Rover SUV who triggered the shocking chain of events, families and friends tried to grasp the blink-of-an-eye finality of it all. "Right now my heart is breaking," said Cherry's great aunt, Patricia Sims, of Oakland. "This has really been a tragedy. Kenny was just a delightful kid." Sims, 75, said Cherry moved to Las Vegas from the Bay Area, though she didn't know her nephew was a rapper using the name Kenny Clutch. Cherry's parents were traveling to Las Vegas on Friday to claim his body. The 27-year-old, whose full name is Kenneth Wayne Cherry Jr., was driving a Maserati that was peppered by gunfire before it sped through a red light and smashed into Boldon's taxi. The taxi exploded into flames, killing Boldon and Sutton-Wasmund, as four other vehicles crashed like pinballs at an intersection overlooked by some of Las Vegas' most <b>...</b> | From: abdnews46 Views: 17 0 ratings | |
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