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Atlanta rapper Young Scooter’s cause of death has been revealed by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office days after he died on his 39th birthday.

The Georgia rapper died after puncturing his thigh and losing too much blood as a result of climbing a wooden fence. His death was listed as an accident.

“Mr. Bailey sustained a penetrating injury of his right thigh that created marked blood loss. This injury was not a gunshot wound. Mr. Bailey injured himself on organic (wooden) fencing material and/or woody debris after vaulting at least one fence,” the Medical Examiner shared in a statement.

Young Scooter died after he injured his leg while fleeing from Atlanta police, who were responding to a 911 call made at a home on William Nye Drive.

According to Atlanta Police Lt. Andrew Smith, police responded to a call about a dispute with a weapon at a home in the Lakewood Heights neighborhood of Atlanta.

They set up a perimeter outside of the home where the dispute occurred, after a man shut the door on officers. Two men then fled from the house from the back door, though one returned to the house and the other jumping two fences as he was fleeing.

Smith said that it appeared that Young Scooter had sustained “some type of fracture or injuries to the leg,” which he noted was bleeding. He clarified no shots were fired during the incident, which remains under investigation.