A person convicted of ordering his teenage son to homicide a rapper and steal his jewelry at a Los Angeles restaurant has been jailed for 31 years to life.
Freddie Lee Trone, 42, was convicted final month of 1 depend of homicide, two counts of theft, and one depend of conspiracy to commit theft after sending his 17-year-old son to rob and kill PnB Rock.
The boy, who’s unfit for trial in keeping with a choose, walked into Roscoe’s Hen & Waffles in South Los Angeles, a venue widespread with celebrities, in September 2022, the place he fatally shot the 30-year-old artist and took his jewelry.
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Freddie Lee Trone was jailed for at least 31 years. Pic: AP
The Philadelphia hip-hop star, whose actual identify was Rakim Hasheem Allen, was consuming with Stephanie Sibounheuang, his fiancee and the mom of his four-year-old daughter.
The gunman, carrying a ski masks, opened fireplace on Allen, seconds after shouting: “If you don’t give me the jewellery, I’m going to blow her head off,” Rolling Stone stated.
Ms Sibounheuang instructed the court docket Allen “threw” her below the desk when the gunfire started. Allen was shot as soon as within the chest and twice within the again, a submit mortem discovered.
Prosecutors alleged he was performing on his father’s orders, whereas Trone’s defence staff, which plans to enchantment, stated the older man was solely an adjunct after the actual fact.
Trone, who was a member of a South Los Angeles gang, in keeping with NBC, Sky’s US accomplice, was sentenced at Compton Courthouse within the metropolis on Monday.
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PnB Rock had labored with Ed Sheeran. Pic: AP
District lawyer George Gascon stated Allen’s life “was cut short by an act of violence that no family should have to endure”.
Deannea Allen, the rapper’s mom, quoted by Rolling Stone, stated in court docket that she could not grasp how a mother or father may “directly put their child in danger”, including that her son’s homicide “has ruined many lives”.
Trone’s now 19-year-old son, who was not named on the time of the killing due to his age, was additionally charged with homicide however is in juvenile custody after a choose determined he isn’t at the moment competent to face trial.
PnB Rock was finest identified for his 2016 hit Egocentric and for visitor appearances on different artists’ songs comparable to YFN Lucci’s On a regular basis We Lit and Ed Sheeran’s Cross Me, with Probability The Rapper.
Trone’s co-defendant Tremont Jones, 46, was jailed for 12 years for 2 counts of theft and one depend of conspiracy.
