Shooting injures Eminem protege Obie Trice

Rapper in good condition after being shot while driving on Detroit freeway

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updated 10:40 a.m. ET Dec. 31, 2005

DETROIT - Rapper Obie Trice was shot early Saturday while driving on a freeway, police said.

Trice, a Detroit native and protege of Eminem, was on the Lodge Freeway at about 1:10 a.m. when his vehicle was shot at by someone in another car, said Michigan State Police Sgt. Mario Gonzales.

Trice managed to continue driving and exited the freeway in the suburb of Southfield, where his girlfriend, who also was in the vehicle, flagged down police, Gonzales said. The girlfriend wasn’t wounded.

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The rapper was taken to a hospital and was listed in good condition, Gonzales said.