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About a dozen people were aboard the two buses together when
the pre-dawn shooting occurred on Interstate 285 near the
junction of Interstate 75, northwest of Atlanta, Cobb County
police spokesman Sergeant Dana Pierce said.
By the time police arrived, most of the individuals from Wayne's
group had left the scene, and the few remaining told officers
they believed the shots were fired from "some type of white car"
on the highway, Pierce said.
Atlanta police spokeswoman Elizabeth Espy was quoted by the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper as saying there were two
suspect vehicles involved, possibly a sports car and a sport
utility vehicle, both white.
Police have no suspects, "nor was anybody injured on the bus,
fortunately," Pierce said, adding he had no immediate
explanation of what might have precipitated such a shooting.
According to the Journal-Constitution and the celebrity news
website TMZ, Wayne, 32, performed Saturday night at the Compound
nightclub in Atlanta. TMZ said other passengers on the buses
included executive's of Wayne's label, Young Money, and other
recording artists, including Lil Twist and Hood.
Last month, a report of a shooting at a Miami Beach home
belonging to Wayne, born Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., was declared
a hoax by police after investigators found no evidence of
victims or gunfire.
Wayne won Grammy awards in 2008 for best rap album, best rap
song, best rap solo performance and was part of the
award-winning best rap group performance. The New Orleans native
has had run-ins with the law on weapons and drug charges and
went to prison in New York in a gun case.
Wayne's representatives were not immediately available for
comment.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman from Los Angeles; Editing by Alan
Crosby)
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