FORT LAUDERDALE — The demo in the murder of nearby rap star XXXTentacion continued Thursday.
For a 2nd working day, suspect Robert Allen took the stand. He testified towards the other suspects.
Allen has currently pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and is a witness in the case.
He testified about witness intimidation from one particular of the co-defendants in the situation.
An lawyer questioned, “Ended up there any feedback built to you that ended up not coming from myself or any lawyers? Who made a remark to you about your testimony?”
Allen replied, “Indeed, Trayvon Newsome.”
Jurors also saw images of the suspects displaying off money.
Allen testified they took these shots a pair of days just after killing XXXTentacion.
Then he is questioned, “Does that forex that you and your co-defendant, Michal Boatwright are keeping from the $50,000 that you stole from the sufferer when you killed him?”
“Certainly,” claimed Allen.
The area rap star was shot and killed exterior a Broward County motorcycle store back again on June 18, 2018.
Earlier this week, jurors bought to see graphic video that was captured by surveillance cameras that documented the final minutes of the lifestyle of XXXTentacion, whose serious title was Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy.
The 20-yr-outdated artist was gunned down for the duration of a theft exterior RIVA Motorsports, although he sat in his i8 BMW, waiting around to travel out of the business’ driveway.
According to testimony, Onfroy was carrying $50,000 in dollars in a Louis Vuitton satchel, funds he acquired from a Coconut Creek bank. He experienced meant to use the funds to acquire a motorcycle from the store, prosecutors reported.
Michael Boatwright, 27, Dedrick Williams, 26, and Trayvon Newsome, 24, are just about every going through fees of very first-degree murder and theft with a firearm. They are all standing trial together following Choose Michael Usan rejected a request to try them individually.
If convicted, each and every of the adult men could be sentenced to lifestyle in jail.
Robert Allen, 26, pleaded guilty in August 2022 to second-diploma murder and he expended most of the working day on the stand telling jurors what transpired in the times in advance of, throughout and immediately after XXXTentacion was shot and killed.
During opening statements, defense lawyers explained to the jury that they would obstacle Allen’s account, with a person lawyer indicating essentially that he had lied in order to spare himself a everyday living sentence in prison.
Allen, donning a tan prison jumpsuit and testifying for the prosecution, experienced to be reminded quite a few situations by state attorney Pascale Achille and defense legal professionals to communicate up as he recounted what happened the day Onfroy died.
Allen told jurors that the 4 adult men agreed on June 17, 2018, to lease a vehicle in get to drive about and rob unsuspecting victims.
“We experienced masks to rob people,” Allen claimed, adding that all four would have guns in buy to have out their alleged criminal offense spree.
Allen reported the concept to rent the car arrived from Williams, who Achille reported was the getaway driver. Allen also claimed all of the men had confront masks except for Williams, which is why the group ended up at the shop.
When there, they just transpired to run throughout XXXTentacion.
“Deidrick claimed it truly is XXX,” Allen stated though he and Williams were in the store. At that point, they started communicating with two many others exterior and hatched a program to rob Onfroy even though “lying in hold out” for the rapper to leave the retail outlet after all four experienced returned to their vehicle, Achille stated.
The online video captured a Dodge SUV blocking the rapper’s BMW in the driveway as two men, 1 of them armed with a lengthy-barrel rifle, went to his car to demand his jewellery and choose his designer bag.
The online video also confirmed a front-seat passenger, determined as a loved ones relative, who ran from the vehicle as the armed heist occurred.
“I couldn’t see or hear what XXX was saying,” Allen explained, accusing Boatwright of firing up to a few shots that killed the rapper.
Allen stated he did not get out of the automobile since he had been captured on a surveillance camera inside the shop and knew that it would be utilised to connect him to the criminal offense.
“I understood there was a very good possibility I would get caught,” he testified. “I did not want to get arrested.”
Instantly just after the taking pictures, the four mentioned they acquired that Onfroy had died whilst listening to the radio. The four finished up crashing the rented Dodge SUV when they rear-finished a stopped vehicle just a few minutes just after the killing, Allen explained.
They all deserted the car and ran from the scene but would reunite later just after Newsome returned to the scene to get the vehicle.
In the course of his testimony, Allen testified that just about every of the males received $15,000 of the stolen funds but he only gained $5,000 because he stayed in the automobile throughout the theft.
The funds he stated, “appeared like it came from a financial institution,” Allen explained.
