Local entertainer Jackson killed Monday night

• By SONIA SMITH
• Advocate staff writer
• Published: Feb 10, 2009 - UPDATED: 2:25 a.m.

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Local rapper Chris Lynell Jackson, known professionally as Nussie, was shot and killed Monday night in a house on America Street, relatives said at the crime scene.

Police spokesman Capt. Carl Kelley said that officers responding to a report of a shooting found a man shot and injured in the 2500 block of North Boulevard around 11:24 p.m.

That man told them that another man had been shot in a house nearby, Kelley said.

Officers responded and found a deceased man with a gunshot wound in a house at 2317 America St., between Evergreen Drive and Delphine Street.

Kelley declined to release the identity of the deceased, but Jackson's sister Ashley Richardson said her brother was the man inside the house.

Over 50 people crowded around the crime scene tape into the early morning hours. Detectives were waiting to have a search warrant drawn up and signed before they went back into the house, Kelley said.

Richardson said her brother had been rapping for at least four years and had garnered quite a following in Baton Rouge. He would also regularly play shows in Thibodaux, Plaquemine and White Castle, she said.

Nussie's last album, "The Champ is Here" came out last April on Dope Celebrity Records.