Two years after rapper PnB Rock was fatally shot whereas consuming lunch along with his girlfriend at a Los Angeles restaurant, the daddy who instructed his then 17-year-old son to rob and kill the artist has been handed a sentence.
On Monday, Sept. 23, L.A. Superior Courtroom Choose Connie Quinones sentenced Freddie Lee Trone, 42, to 31 years to life in jail, per a press release from the Los Angeles District Legal professional’s Workplace.
In accordance an announcement beforehand obtained by PEOPLE from the Los Angeles County District Legal professional’s Workplace, Trone was convicted on Aug. 7 after a jury discovered him responsible of homicide, conspiracy to commit theft and two counts of theft. Trone’s son, an unnamed juvenile defendant, was charged with homicide and scheduled for “psychological competency proceedings” in late August. He’s now 19 and in a juvenile detention middle.
Except for Trone’s conviction on Aug. 7, a second defendant, Tremont Jones, was convicted of two counts of theft and one rely of conspiracy to commit theft. He was sentenced to 12 years in jail, the D.A.’s workplace introduced.
A 3rd defendant, Trone’s wife Shauntel Trone, who pleaded no contest to accent after the actual fact in July, is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 16.
“Immediately, justice has been served with the sentencing of two males for the tragic and mindless homicide of Rakim Hasheem Allen, additionally identified to many because the proficient rap artist PnB Rock,” District Legal professional Gascón stated within the launch. “I need to prolong my deepest condolences to the household, mates, and followers of Rakim Allen. His life was minimize quick by an act of violence that no household ought to must endure. I additionally need to commend the tireless efforts of our Neighborhood Violence Discount Division. Their dedication to this case demonstrates the significance of collaboration between legislation enforcement, prosecutors, and the group in decreasing violence and bringing perpetrators to justice.”
PnB Rock, born Rakim Hasheem Allen, died at age 30 on Sept. 12, 2022, after the robbery-murder at a Roscoe’s Home of Hen ’N Waffles in South Los Angeles.
One month after the incident, his girlfriend, Stephanie Sibounheuang, said he saved her life. “My man saved my life, throwing me underneath that desk,” she wrote on Instagram. “I’m not speculated to be right here however bc of him. I’m.”
“To witness what I noticed and to maintain seeing it in my head,” she continued, “to being pressured out the restaurant, to not have the ability to go within the ambulance or the hospital, automotive keys, purse and my cellphone taken from me, pressured at the back of a police automotive, locked in an interrogation room all evening, whereas all this is happening and to be the final particular person on this world to know my man didn’t make it after having the religion and confidence that he was.”
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“Immediately, justice has been served with the sentencing of two males for the tragic and mindless homicide of Rakim Hasheem Allen, additionally identified to many because the proficient rap artist PnB Rock,” district lawyer George Gascón added within the Sept. 23 assertion.
“I need to prolong my deepest condolences to the household, mates, and followers of Rakim Allen. His life was minimize quick by an act of violence that no household ought to must endure,” Gascón added.
“I additionally need to commend the tireless efforts of our Neighborhood Violence Discount Division. Their dedication to this case demonstrates the significance of collaboration between legislation enforcement, prosecutors, and the group in decreasing violence and bringing perpetrators to justice,” he concluded.