SAN ANTONIO— A Texas rap artist that executed as Tay-K and was best recognized for his 2017 solitary “The Race” was founded guilty of murder momentarily time after a court located him guilty of fatally firing a San Antonio male.
Taymor McIntyre confronts life behind bars with the opportunity of parole for the murder of 23-year-old Mark Anthony Saldivar in 2017. McIntyre had actually currently been been offering a 55-year sentence over a different deadly capturing.
District attorneys stated that McIntyre fired Saldivar after the rap artist attempted to burglarize him. Authorities stated McIntyre had actually gotten Saldivar, that was a professional photographer, in a vehicle after asking him to take images of the rap artist for a brand-new tune.
McIntyre’s lawyers had actually slammed the cops examination of the capturing, affirming the instance depended way too much on egocentric declarations from witnesses in the cars and truck when the capturing took place.
” Taymor McIntyre is innocent of funding murder, murder, or wrongful death, and the factor for that is extremely straightforward,” John Seeker, among McIntyre’s lawyers, informed jurors throughout shutting debates recently. “You need to do it right. You need to do the job. And this instance plainly shows the job had not been done.”
The court located McIntyre innocent of funding murder, which would certainly have suggested a life sentence without the opportunity of parole. The court will certainly currently listen to proof in the test’s penalty stage prior to selecting a sentence.
McIntyre was additionally founded guilty in 2019 for the capturing fatality of 21-year-old Ethan Pedestrian throughout a home intrusion in 2016 in Mansfield, southeast of Ft Well worth, Texas.
McIntyre taped “The Race” while he got on the run from authorities for the home intrusion.
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