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Shots fired at SUV driven by rapper Yung Miami; no injuries reported

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Yung Miami poses in the press room at the BET Awards in Los Angeles on June 23. Shots were fired at a luxury sports-utility vehicle driven by the rapper but police in Florida say she wasn’t injured.

MIAMI >> Shots were fired at a luxury sports-utility vehicle driven by rapper Yung Miami but police in Florida say she wasn’t injured.

Miami-Dade police Det. Lee Cowart says the shooting happened about 1 a.m. today. The location is near a recording studio called Circle House that the rapper uses.

Cowart says several shots were fired into the red Mercedes-Benz vehicle driven by Yung Miami but she wasn’t hit. The 26-year-old Yung Miami, whose real name is Caresha Romeka Brownlee, recently revealed she’s pregnant with her second child.

She is part of the rap duo City Girls along with JT, whose real name is Jatavia Shakara Johnson. They have recorded with Cardi B. and Drake.

Cowart says there are no immediate suspects in the shooting and the investigation is ongoing.

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