Separated from Security Detail, Rapper Shot in Attempted Carjacking

The rapper Cam'ron, who will release his next album and feature film, both called Killa Season, in February, came a little too close to the literal meaning of the title over the weekend. He was recovering at his New York home yesterday from bullet wounds to both arms suffered in an apparent attempted carjacking in Washington.

Cam'ron's managers say he and his Harlem-based crew were in Washington for Howard University's homecoming and to commence a buzz for Killa Season, and that he was shot early Sunday morning after he left a nightclub, H20. Cam'ron, 29, was driving his royal blue 2006 Lamborghini and became separated from his security.

At a traffic light at New York and New Jersey Avenues, the managers said, two men in a burgundy Ford Expedition SUV pulled up alongside and attempted to carjack Cam'ron, who refused to give up his car. The would-be thieves opened fire, and a bullet hit the rapper, traveling through one arm into the other.

Cam'ron, 29, drove to Howard University Hospital, where he was treated and released Sunday.