Rapper dollar was fatally shot in the valet waiting area of a Los Angeles mall Monday, 2009

Rapper dollar bill was fatally shot in the valet waiting area of a Los Angeles mall Monday by a suspect who fled in a silver Mercedes SUV, the Los Angeles Times is reporting, citing information from police. Police arrested a suspect, Aubrey Louis Berry, 23, of Georgia, Monday afternoon at Los Angeles International Airport as Berry attempted to board a plane, said Los Angeles Police Department officials. The shooting occurred about 3:10 p.m. in the parking garage of Beverly Center, a popular mall on the city's Westside, sending diners in nearby restaurants diving for cover.

Dolla, a rapper whose real name is Roderick Anthony Burton II, was shot in the head as he and several other people stood near the center's La Cienega Boulevard entrance, according to police, witnesses and Dolla's publicist, Sue Vannasing. A friend of the rapper's who was at the Beverly Center and a Los Angeles Police Department official also confirmed the victim's identity to The Times. Burton, 21, arrived at LAX from Atlanta earlier in the day and went to the Beverly Center to shop, Vannasing said. After the shooting, Burton was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center a few blocks from the mall, where he died, police said.