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Updated at 9:24 p.m. on Dec. 8, 2014
A cast member of a VH1 drama and her rapper husband were found dead Monday in a unit at an apartment complex in the Fairfax district in what police said was a murder-suicide.
Earl Warren Hayes, 34, shot and killed his wife, 30-year-old Stephanie Elyse Moseley, before taking his own life, police confirmed tonight.
Moseley who plays a member of a basketball team’s dance squad on “Hit the Floor.”
Officers were sent to the Palazzo complex at Park La Brea, in the 300 block of Hauser Boulevard a few blocks from The Grove shopping center, about 7:30 a.m. on neighbors’ reports of multiple shots fired and a woman screaming.
When arriving officers who entered the apartment encountered a closed back bedroom door and heard two gunshots, they sent for a SWAT team, according to an LAPD official at the scene.
When they made entry, the officers found two people dead of gunshot wounds. A weapon was recovered.
NBC4 reported that one of those gathering near the scene was Burrel L. Wilks, who said he had known Moseley for seven years, first as a life coach, then as a friend, and he considered Moseley his little sister.
“I’ve had sit downs with both of them so whatever happened behind those doors we’ll never know but I heard out of her own mouth, he never raised a hand on her so this is kind of stunning,” Wilks told NBC4.
In a song posted to his website, Hayes rapped, “Been in court for corpses/Been in the game so long I met my enemies’ orphans.”
Residents of several floors of the 600-unit complex were evacuated until officers determined there was no threat to their safety.
TMZ reported that Hayes had once been signed to Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s Money Team record label and often socialized with the boxer.
Moseley has been a backup performer for numerous singers, including Chris Brown and Britney Spears, according to TMZ. NBC4 reported that Hayes was a songwriter for Alica Keys.
— City News Service