{"id":17752,"date":"2020-10-27T22:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T02:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=17752"},"modified":"2020-10-27T22:12:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T02:12:06","slug":"rapper-brian-trotter-found-dead-in-car-after-florida-highway-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2020\/10\/27\/rapper-brian-trotter-found-dead-in-car-after-florida-highway-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Brian Trotter found dead in car after Florida highway crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p><b class=\"css-14iz86j-BoldText e5tfeyi0\">US police have found the body of an aspiring rapper in the boot of a car after a crash on a highway in Miami.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Florida Highway Patrol officers discovered the body of 25-year-old hip-hop artist Brian Trotter after being called to the site of the collision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>The driver, 25-year-old Robert Deupree Avery Coltrain, has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder and illegal transport of human remains.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17754\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17754\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Robert-Coltrain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17754\" src=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Robert-Coltrain.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Coltrain\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Robert-Coltrain.jpg 540w, https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Robert-Coltrain-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Avery Coltrain, 25, has been charged with second-degree murder for allegedly killing 25-year-old Brian Trotter. In addition, Coltrain is charged with one count of illegal transport of human remains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>An autopsy showed Trotter was fatally shot multiple times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Officers have not suggested a motive for the killing. Mr Coltrain has been friends with Trotter &#8211; known by the rap name Kent Won&#8217;t Stop &#8211; for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>A police report said highway patrolmen were called to the site of the car crash on the Palmetto Expressway in Miami on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>They towed the vehicle &#8211; a 2009 Silver Acura &#8211; to a nearby car park, but became suspicious after noticing buzzing flies and a rotting smell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Inside the boot they found the body &#8220;wrapped in a piece of fabric and in an advanced stage of decomposition&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Trotter was last seen on 17 October leaving his home in Triangle, Virginia along with Coltrain.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-54714242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">US police have found the body of an aspiring rapper in the boot of a car after a crash on a highway in Miami. 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