Police sources told the Philadelphia Daily News that investigators are skeptical about rapper Beanie Sigel’s account of his shooting, which took place last week and sent him to the hospital with a wound in his shoulder.
Residents in his old neighborhood told police that they never heard gunshots, cops were unable to find any shell casings in the street where Sigel said he had been shot, and police sources said detectives still haven’t tracked down enough evidence to corroborate the rapper’s story, the Daily News reports.
The rapper, whose real name is Dwight Grant, told authorities that four assailants jumped out of two cars and robbed him of his $75,000 worth of personal items, including a Jacob the Jeweler watch and a platinum chain bearing a record-shaped pendant. The robbers also took off with about $3,000 in cash, police sources said.
Sigel told police he had driven himself to the emergency room.
He was released from the hospital at 11:40 a.m. Before taking off, he rolled down the window and told reporters: “I’m alive. I got shot. I am cool.”
Detectives have questioned Sigel repeatedly about the incident, and authorities say he appears to be cooperating.