Rapper Tay-K, also known as Tay-K 47, received an 80-year prison sentence for a 2017 murder. He is presently serving a 55-year term for a 2016 murder. The 2017 track “The Race,” which was featured on Billboard’s Hot 100, is the most well-known work of 24-year-old Tay-K, whose real name is Taymor McIntyre.
The rapper, who was 17 at the time, was detained by U.S. Marshals in New Jersey about a 2016 murder case on the same day the song was published. He was arrested for his role in a botched 2016 home invasion after he took off his ankle bracelet, escaped house detention, and went on the run before a court appearance.
The rapper was charged with the murder of 21-year-old Ethan Walker in Tarrant County, Texas, when he was 16 years old. Rapper Tay-K received a 55-year sentence in 2016 for a failed home invasion that led to murder.
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The rapper received a 55-year prison sentence in 2019. “It wasn’t part of the plan,” asserted Jeff Kearney, one of his attorneys. The plan was robbery, not murder. not murdering. The judge in that case also decided that he would serve 13 years in jail for the remaining two counts of the same crime and 30 years in prison for the first three counts of aggravated robbery.
In 2017, while Tay-K was still at large for his 2016 crime, authorities charged him with a second murder. The rapper allegedly participated in a group that picked up 23-year-old photographer Mark Anthony Saldívar in San Antonio for a photo shoot that was scheduled to take place in a nearby mall, according to the arrest warrant issued by Bexar County, Texas, authorities.
However, prosecutors asserted that they robbed Saldvar of his camera gear at gunpoint while he was in the automobile. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram also asserted that they shot and killed him after a fight with Tay-K. On April 23, 2017, Saldívar was discovered dead in a Chick-fil-A parking lot.
Rapper Tay-K received an additional 80 years in prison for his second murder conviction, adding to his previous 55-year sentence. Following eight hours of deliberation, a jury found Tay-K guilty of murder on Monday, April 14. They did not, however, find him guilty of capital murder. The penalty for the charge would have been mandatory life in prison without the possibility of parole.
According to reports, none of the witnesses in the case were able to identify Tay-K as the gunman. This probably resulted in a conviction on the lesser murder charge. Tay-K, 24, was sentenced to 80 years in jail on Tuesday, April 15, for the 2017 murder of the young San Antonio man.
The sentence was handed down hours after the victim’s and Tay-K’s relatives, including Tay-K’s sister Kayla Beverly, spoke about their allegedly violent upbringing.
She claimed that due of their mother’s drug addiction, she and her younger brother were taken from their house. Thereafter, they entered the foster system. But according to Beverly, their foster mother also mistreated them psychologically and physically.
Judge Stephanie Boyd of the 187th District Court talked to Tay-K about his difficult upbringing and his 55-year sentence. Boyd stated:
From what I can tell, his mother wasn’t a good parent to him. His father wasn’t a good parent to him. Child Protective Services was not good, and if you believe the testimony, I don’t know why Child Protective Services would place children back with a father who put the children’s mother in a hospital.”
His mother wasn’t a good mom to him, based on my observations. He wasn’t raised well by his father. Child Protective Services was subpar, and if the testimony is to be believed, I don’t understand why they would return children to a father who had committed the crime of hospitalizing the children’s mother.
“I do realize that while this is a lot of time, you’re still alive. You can still better yourself. But the complainant in this case is deceased, and you need to internalize that the complainant in this case is deceased. You’re going to have to make changes.