Crime & Safety

Deadly Shooting of Atlanta Hip Hop Manager Still a Mystery

Body of Christopher 'Cam' A. Martin found Aug. 4 off of Jedburg Road, no new leads in investigation.

In the tall, overgrown grass outside an abanadoned home just north between the city of Goose Creek and the town of Summerville, an Atlanta hip hop manager died of multiple gun shot wounds. 

The Berkeley County Sheriff's Office is still investigating the homicide and autopsy results are still pending for Christopher A. Martin — better know as "Cam" of Camouflage Management. His body was found Aug. 4 near the intersection of Jedburg Road and Dons Lane. 

"There are no new developments that I can report on at this time," Berkeley County Sheriff's Office spokesman Dan Moon said.

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Martin's not a household name and his clients aren't either, not yet anyway. But Martin had 13 years in the managing business. His clients included Yung Berg, DJ Mr. Rogers, The Party Boyz, Loon, Chyna Whyte and Mercy the Kid, according to Martin's LinkedIn profile. 

See a recent music video "All We Do is Trap" by Yung Berg attached to this story (Caution: expletives; trap is slang for a "place, usually a run-down dwelling, where drugs are sold," according to Online Slang Dictionary).

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Less than a month after Martin's death, his domain name Camouflagemanagement.com is up for sale through Godaddy.com. 

Here is an online obituary posted for Martin on HipHopNews24-7.com. The article generated 27 comments, lamenting the industry's loss and unnecessary violence. 

The online hip hop publication reported a tweet from client Yung Berg:

“RIP 2 MY BROTHER CHRISTOPHER MARTIN AKA CAM! GONE 2 SOON! WAS JUST WITH HIM 2 DAYS AGO!,” Yung Berg tweeted.

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