San Antonio (AP)-a rapper of Texas who acted as Tay-Okay and was higher recognized for his 2017 single “The Race” was convicted of homicide for the second time after a jury discovered him responsible of fatally capturing a person from San Antonio.
Taymor McIntyre faces life imprisonment with the opportunity of probation for the homicide of Mark Anthony Saldivar, 23, in 2017. McIntyre had already been fulfilling a 55 -year sentence for a separate deadly capturing.
The prosecutors mentioned McIntyre shot him to Saldívar after the rapper tried to steal him. The authorities mentioned McIntyre had collected Saldívar, who was a photographer, in a automotive after asking him to take images of the rapper for a brand new music.
McIntyre’s legal professionals had criticized the police investigation of the capturing, claiming that the case depended an excessive amount of on the egocentric statements of the witnesses within the automotive when the capturing occurred.
“Taymor Mcintyre is just not responsible of capital homicide, homicide or murder, and the explanation for that’s quite simple,” mentioned John Hunter, one among McIntyre’s legal professionals, to jurors through the remaining arguments final week. “You must do nicely. You must do the job. And this case clearly demonstrates that the work was not achieved.”
The jury discovered McIntyre not responsible of capital homicide, which might have meant a life imprisonment with out the opportunity of probation. The jury will now hearken to proof within the punishment part of the trial earlier than deciding on a sentence.
McIntyre was additionally sentenced in 2019 for the dying of Ethan Walker, 21, throughout an invasion of the home in 2016 in Mansfield, southeast of Fort Value, Texas.
McIntyre registered “the race” whereas he was fleeing the authorities for the invasion of the home.