A jury has convicted two males of homicide within the South-Central Los Angeles theft of rapper PnB Rock on Wednesday.

Per Rolling Stone, Freddie Trone’s 17-year-old son was despatched to rob the entertainer whose actual title is Rakim Allen. Trone’s co-conspirator Tremont Jones was found to be driving the getaway automobile. PnB Rock was 30.

Trone was discovered responsible of felony homicide, theft, and conspiracy. The rapper was eating at in style eatery Roscoe’s Rooster and Waffles when he was robbed and killed by Trone’s son.

The prosecution primarily based their argument on surveillance footage which exhibits Trone’s son getting out of the getaway automobile that his father and Tremont had been in. The cameras additionally present the 17-year-old grabbing a hid weapon from his father and coming into the restaurant. This immediately contradicts a press release Trone gave on the stand throughout cross-examination prosecution on Monday—he’s at all times pled harmless to all prices.

“I perceive you’re making an attempt to place collectively your story,” Trone stated in a Compton, California, courtroom earlier than closing arguments started. “I by no means had nothing to do with it. I wasn’t there. I didn’t inform no one to do nothing. I didn’t hand no one no gun.”

PnB Rock’s mom Deanna Allen discovered about court docket proceedings by means of social media as we beforehand reported. She shared her ideas on the decision by means of the press.

“I’m elated,” Allen stated. “I needed to leap up and scream, ‘Hallelujah.’ I’m so completely happy it was fast. We received justice for Rakim. I really feel higher realizing they’ll be in jail for a very long time.”

Trone’s sentencing is about for Aug. 27. We’ll share extra on sentencing for others concerned as information turns into accessible.