Police said two men got out of a car, armed with guns, and fired multiple shots into the cookie store. Young Dolph was killed at the scene. An autopsy report found that Young Dolph had almost 24 bullet wounds. Mourners quickly flocked to Makeda's, turning the boarded-up storefront into a memorial site for the Memphis rapper.

The trial of a man charged with organizing the daytime ambush killing of rapper Young Dolph at a Memphis bakery in 2021 is underway.

Hernandez Govan is not accused of shooting Young Dolph, but prosecutors claim he directed the two people who did.