The body of an aspiring hip-hop star was found inside the trunk of his friend’s car after a highway crash in Miami
- State troopers stopped to help a man who had crashed on the highway in Miami.
- When they did, they smelled an odor coming from the trunk, which turned out to be from a dead body.
- Detectives arrested the driver on charges that he shot and killed his friend, an aspiring hip-hop star, before transporting the body in his trunk.
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A Virginia man was driving on a highway in Miami on Sunday when he was involved in a traffic crash. When Florida State Troopers pulled over to assist, they found that the driver was storing the body of his friend, an aspiring hip-hop star, in the trunk, The Miami Herald reported.
On Monday detectives arrested the driver, 25-year-old Robert Deupree Avery Coltrain, on second-degree murder and illegal transport of human remains charges, the Herald reported.
Brian Trotter, known as an artist as "Kent Won't Stop," had been missing from Virginia since Oct. 17. He was 25.
Trotter and Coltrain had been friends for more than a decade and had played sports together, The Herald reported based on interviews with family. They were working together to promote their music, according to the paper.
On Oct. 17, Coltrain went to Trotter's Triangle, Virginia home to pick him up before a trip to Washington, DC, Trotter's father told The Herald.
When he didn't return home and wasn't responding to calls, Trotter's family filed a missing person's report, according to Fox 5 DC reporter Tisha Lewis.
Trotter's family became especially concerned when they saw social media posts that the music artist owed someone money, Lewis tweeted.
Detectives believe that Coltrain shot and killed Trotter before stuffing his body in the trunk, according to the Herald.
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