All the Lucky Ones Are Dead

Investigating the alleged suicide of a hip-hop star, Gunner uncovers a murder

Carlton Elbridge, better known as C. E. Digga Jones, was too nice for gangsta rap. When he allegedly shot himself, he had millions in the bank, his face on the cover of Time magazine, and a nation of fanatics to mourn his death. He was found in a locked room, gun in his hand and bullet in his brain, and the police assumed it was suicide. Only the rapper's father thinks otherwise.

Suspecting that his son was kil...