Rapper Tay-K convicted of murder for second time in Texas

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Texas rapper who performed arsenic Tay-K and was champion known for his 2017 azygous “The Race” was convicted of execution for a 2nd clip aft a assemblage recovered him blameworthy of fatally shooting a San Antonio man.

Taymor McIntyre faces up to beingness successful situation with the anticipation of parole for the sidesplitting of 23-year-old Mark Anthony Saldivar successful 2017. McIntyre had already been been serving a 55-year condemnation implicit a abstracted fatal shooting.

Prosecutors said that McIntyre changeable Saldivar aft the rapper tried to rob him. Authorities said McIntyre had picked up Saldivar, who was a photographer, successful a car aft asking him to instrumentality photos of the rapper for a caller song.

McIntyre’s attorneys had criticized the constabulary probe of the shooting, alleging the lawsuit relied excessively overmuch connected self-serving statements from witnesses successful the car erstwhile the shooting happened.

“Taymor McIntyre is not blameworthy of superior murder, murder, oregon manslaughter, and the crushed for that is precise simple,” John Hunter, 1 of McIntyre’s attorneys, told jurors during closing arguments past week. “You person to bash it right. You person to bash the work. And this lawsuit intelligibly demonstrates the enactment wasn’t done.”

The assemblage recovered McIntyre not blameworthy of superior murder, which would person meant a beingness condemnation without the accidental of parole. The assemblage volition present perceive grounds successful the trial’s punishment signifier earlier deciding connected a sentence.

McIntyre was besides convicted successful 2019 for the shooting decease of 21-year-old Ethan Walker during a location penetration successful 2016 successful Mansfield, southeast of Fort Worth, Texas.

McIntyre recorded “The Race" portion helium was connected the tally from authorities for the location invasion.