Rapper, Tay-K, was sentenced to 55 years in prison for his role in a 2016 robbery that left one man dead. He is also ordered to pay $21,000 in fines.
Tay-K was one of seven defendants, and they were all either found guilty or reached plea deals.
He became well known after his record “The Race”, where he rapped about evading law enforcement.
CNN Reports:
Texas rapper Tay-K was sentenced to 55 years in prison and a $21,000 fine Tuesday on a murder charge for a 2016 robbery that left one man dead, according to the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office.
The Tarrant County jury also sentenced Tay-K, whose legal name is Taymor McIntyre, to 30 years in prison on one count of aggravated robbery and 13 years for each of the remaining two counts of aggravated robbery
The sentences will run concurrently, a court clerk said.
According to witness testimony, Tay-K was part of a plan to steal drugs and money from the victim’s home in Mansfield, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, KTVT reported.
The victim, Ethan Walker, didn’t have the drugs or money the robbers were after, the witnesses said, according to KTVT. Walker’s girlfriend testified that he was shot while his hands were in the air.
Tay-K’s attorneys argued that he wasn’t the person who fired the gun and so shouldn’t have been found guilty, according to KTVT. Prosecutors said Tay-K knew that the plan was to rob Walker.
Tay-K gained notoriety in 2017 when he cut off his ankle bracelet and fled house arrest. He released a song called “The Race,” which now has more than 174 million views on YouTube. The video shows Tay-K posing next to a wanted poster of himself.
Tay-K was captured in New Jersey after three months on the run, KTVT reported.
It is so sad to hear how someone so young have to spend majority of their life in prison because of bad decisions. Let us please continue to keep the deceased victim’s family in our prayers as they struggle with this loss. This is a life that was taken away way too soon. And now you’re officially in the KNOW!
