Rapper Kidd Creole, who was a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Livid 5, has been sentenced to 16 years in jail for stabbing a homeless man to demise in 2017.
The 62-year-old, whose actual title is Nathaniel Glover, had stabbed 55-year-old John Jolly within the chest twice with a steak knife on the street in New York in August 2017.
Glover was convicted of first-degree manslaughter final month and has been sentenced to 16 years in jail, and 5 years of post-release supervision.
He had pleaded not responsible, together with his attorneys arguing he lashed out in self defence.
Prosecutors accused Glover of stabbing Jolly after believing he was homosexual and approaching to him as he headed to his upkeep job within the metropolis round midnight.
They added that after stabbing Jolly, Glover headed to his office shut by and adjusted his garments and washed the knife, and was arrested the next day.
Manhattan district legal professional Alvin Bragg mentioned after the sentencing: Mr Jolly’s demise was devastating to his household and those that knew him.
‘Each life we lose to violent crime ripples all through our complete metropolis, and we'll proceed to make sure everybody in our borough can reside their lives with the sense of security and safety they deserve.’
Manhattan State Supreme Court docket Justice Michele Rodney appeared to take challenge with the defence’s argument that Glover had felt threatened as Jolly was homeless.
Ms Rodney mentioned throughout sentencing, per The New York Occasions: ‘A life is a life is a life,’ including that the killing was not ‘one way or the other justified as a result of the particular person is homeless’.
Glover’s attorneys mentioned they might be interesting his conviction.
The rapper had been a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Livid 5, which was fashioned within the late 1970’s within the Bronx.
They had been the primary rap group to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 2007.
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