[Updated] In the last hour, we’ve been seeing tweets reporting that rapper Magnolia Shorty has been murdered. We’ve been unable to confirm this beyond tweets the word that Q93 is confirming it. We hope this is a rumor, but will follow up when we know more.

Here’s an interview with Magnolia Shorty from SXSW 2010, and here she is with Kourtney Heart on Heart’s video, “My Boy.”

Update December 21, 12:35 p.m.

The coroner has identified the victims in a double homicide in New Orleans East yesterday as Magnolia Shorty (Renetta Lowe) and Jerome “Man Man” Hampton. She was 28. According to a Times-Picayune staff report:

Hampton has had several high profile run-ins with the law, including being arrested for allegedly assisting notorious pal Ivory Brandon “B-Stupid” Harris in a 2006 shooting. The charges were eventually dropped by prosecutors.

He was also acquitted by a jury of armed robbery charges in 2004. The robbery allegedly preceded the fatal shooting of the Rev. J.T. Hill.

Though the T-P story doesn’t say this, reports circulating on the Internet say Lowe was shot 26 times.

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