Police say a person of interest was being questioned after Walter Long Jr., a rapper who performed as dinnerwithjohn, was stabbed to death Wednesday afternoon near Metra tracks in the River West neighborhood.
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Long, a founding member of the rap group Pivot Gang, had previously rapped under the name John Walt, according to the rap blog Fake Shore Drive.
The 24-year-old Long got into a fight with someone who pulled out a sharp object about 3:20 p.m. in the 400 block of North Clinton, Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
Long suffered a laceration to his upper left torso and was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:52 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
Area Central detectives were questioning a person of interest in the case Wednesday night.
Long last played Jan. 6 at Lincoln Hall on the North Side.
—Homicide Watch Chicago and Chicago Sun-Times Wire