FORT LAUDERDALE — A Broward County jury on Monday achieved a guilty verdict on all counts in the trial for three guys accused of killing nearby rapper XXXTentacion 5 a long time in the past all through an ambush theft outside the house a Deerfield Seashore bike store that was caught on surveillance camera.
Michael Boatwright, 27, Dedrick Williams, 26, and Trayvon Newsome, 24, each and every stood trial on 1st-degree murder and robbery with a firearm costs in connection with the murder of the rapper, whose actual title was Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy.
The 20-year-aged hip hop artist was gunned down on June 18, 2018 during an armed maintain-up outside the house RIVA Motorsports even though he sat in his i8 BMW, ready to drive out of the shop’s driveway.
A spouse and children relative who was in the entrance seat managed to operate from the vehicle and was not harm in the course of the incident.
Prosecutors claimed Boatwright was the gunman, when Newsome had been accused of pointing a loaded gun at the car’s occupants. Williams drove the getaway auto, in accordance to testimony.
The 3 adult males were being all on demo collectively right after Choose Michael Usan turned down a ask for to test them individually.
Jurors heard that Onfroy was carrying $50,000 in dollars in a Louis Vuitton satchel for the reason that he had been searching that working day for a activity bike, according to testimony.
Prosecutors informed the jury that the a few suspects concocted an elaborate prepare on June 17, 2018 that integrated renting a auto in purchase to basically drive all around South Florida and rob unsuspecting victims.
The 3 males, alongside with Robert Allen, 26, occurred to cross paths with Onfroy at the activity store mainly because one of them essential a face mask to take part in that day’s criminal offense spree, prosecutors mentioned in the course of the trial.
Allen pleaded responsible in August 2022 to next-degree murder and he was a single of the very first witnesses who took the stand to recount for jurors what happened in the times just before, for the duration of, and soon after XXXTentacion was shot and killed.
Allen has not however been sentenced but he could also face daily life in prison for his participation in the slaying.
For the duration of closing arguments, prosecutor Pascale Achille played cellphone movies the defendants allegedly took hrs soon after the killing that showed them smiling and dancing as they flashed handfuls of $100 bills.
“This is who they are. This is their authentic character. Killers that within 24 hrs after taking pictures the target dead and thieving $50,000 from him, this is what they do,” Achille told the jury as she played the video clip. “Look at how pleased they glance. Seem at how enthusiastic they search.”
