Tay-Ok is already serving a 55-year sentence on a separate homicide convition.
Incarcerated rapper Tay-Ok has prevented a literal loss of life sentence within the case regarding his involvement with the homicide of a photographer in Texas a number of years in the past.
On Monday (April 14), Tay-Ok, whose actual title is Taymor McIntyre, prevented receiving the loss of life penalty after he was discovered not responsible of capital homicide and responsible of the homicide of photographer Mark Anthony Saldivar in 2017.
If McIntyre would’ve been convicted of the capital homicide cost, he would have been dealing with the loss of life penalty. As a substitute, he’ll now be dealing with a sentence someplace between 5 and 99 years over his responsible homicide cost conviction.
The ruling brings the trial, which noticed McIntyre accused of each robbing and fatally capturing Saldivar, to an in depth. On the time the deadly capturing occurred, prosecutors allege that McIntyre, who was out on bond and underneath home arrest, minimize off his GPS monitor and fled. It was presently his music “The Race” gained viral consideration by attracting over 360 million views on YouTube and reaching the Billboard Sizzling 100.
In line with studies, McIntyre was in a position to circumvent the capital homicide cost attributable to conflicting bodily proof and eye witness testimony. Mcintyre’s ex-girlfriend Joanna Reyes, who drove the automobile concerned within the incident, testified in opposition to him in the course of the trial.
“He climbed on the hood of the automobile, making an attempt to get his stuff again, and that’s when Tay-Ok shot him,” Reyes stated throughout her testimony earlier this month in a Bexar County Court docket.
Although Reyes testified in that she witnessed McIntyre shoot and kill Salidivar in April 2017, further eyewitness accounts uncovered varied descriptions of the shooter and there was conflicting details about the weapon used.
McIntyre is already serving a 55-year sentence on a separate homicide conviction from a 2016 residence invasion case. The jury is about to reconvene on April 14 to ship a ruling on sentencing.
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