Jasun Wardlaw, 30, a Brooklyn resident and underground rapper known as Half a Mill, died in autumn 2003 under conflicting circumstances that remain unresolved. Some reports say he was found dead in his Albany Projects apartment after being shot and killed on October 24, 2003, a homicide account that names no suspects and notes no arrests.

Other widely circulated accounts claim he died by a self-inflicted gunshot on October 22, 2003, a suicide narrative complicated by reports that the firearm purportedly used was found 13 floors below his apartment. Those discrepancies — date, manner of death, and the firearm’s reported location — have left the official explanation unclear to the public.

No arrests have been announced and no consensus has emerged about what happened to the artist.