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Rapper escapes gunfire

Rapper Rick Ross crashed a Rolls-Royce into an apartment building in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., yesterday after he lost control while trying avoiding gunfire aimed at the car, police said.

Ross and a female passenger reported hearing multiple gunshots being fired in their direction as they drove early in the morning, according to police.

The rapper lost control of the car and hit the building as he tried to get away from the shots, police said.

Neither of the car’s occupants was hurt, and the shooting suspects fled before police arrived.

Ross, who lives in nearby Davie, Fla., turned 37 yesterday and had been out celebrating his birthday at a local diner, according to the Miami Herald.

The newspaper reported that one of the bullets fired at the car pierced the diner’s front window.