Halifax police were called to an apartment building at 610 Washmill Lake Dr. on Saturday November 12th on report of a shooting at around 5pm.

Emergency crews arrived to find Shakur Oshay Trevez Jefferies 21 in the parking lot of the building. Paramedics pronounced Jefferies dead at the scene.

Carvel Clayton 21 also known as his rapper persona Certified, has been charged with second degree murder in the death of Jefferies.

Carvel Clayton had just released a song about the gun violence in Nova Scotia called ‘Murder (Pray 4 Scotia)’.