XXXTentacion: Three men jailed for life over rapper's death

Three men person been sentenced to beingness successful situation for sidesplitting US rapper XXXTentacion during a robbery.

The prima was changeable extracurricular a Florida motorcycle store portion being robbed of $50,000 successful currency successful 2018.

The arguable chart-topping 20-year-old rapper rapidly roseate to fame with 2 consecutive deed albums.

Michael Boatwright, 28, Dedrick Williams, 26, and Trayvon Newsome, 24, were recovered blameworthy of first-degree execution and armed robbery past month.

They volition person nary accidental for parole oregon aboriginal release.

Broward County justice Michael Usan told them: "You'll walk each hr and each time and each week and each twelvemonth of your beingness successful that cell.

"And 1 day, they'll travel and unfastened up that compartment successful the greeting and you volition person passed on, and lone connected that time you would've served your sentence."

Prosecutors linked the rapper's killers to the shooting done surveillance video and telephone footage of the men flashing handfuls of $100 notes hours aft the ambush.

Footage showed XXXTentacion - existent sanction Jahseh Onfroy - leaving Riva Motorsports with a person erstwhile an SUV conveyance swerved successful beforehand of him and blocked his BMW.

Two masked gunmen could beryllium seen confronting the rapper astatine the driver's window, with 1 shooting him repeatedly.

They past grabbed a Louis Vuitton container containing currency XXXTentacion had conscionable withdrawn from the bank, and got backmost into the SUV and sped away.

The rapper was taken to infirmary wherever helium was pronounced dead.

Boatwright was identified arsenic the main shooter and Newsome accused of being the different gunman. Williams was accused of driving the SUV and erstwhile person of the rapper, Robert Allen, accused of being wrong the vehicle.

Allen pleaded blameworthy past twelvemonth to second-degree murder, but his condemnation was delayed until the decision of his accomplices' trial. A day for his sentencing has not yet been set.

During the sentencing, the precocious rapper's manager Soloman Sabande - giving a connection connected behalf of the star's household - said helium was murdered "senselessly" and accused his killers of not showing an "ounce of remorse".

He said: "He was a beam of anticipation for each that caller him and his music. But Jahseh's beingness was not lone robbed from america and his family, it was robbed from his extended household of millions of radical crossed the globe...

XXXTentacion archetypal recovered an assemblage by uploading songs to the website SoundCloud and had been hailed arsenic a breakthrough talent.

The rapper, whose deed songs see SAD! and Moonlight, rapidly roseate to prominence pursuing the merchandise of his debut medium 17 successful 2017.

His idiosyncratic beingness was plagued by allegations of home violence. He was facing 15 felony charges astatine the clip of his death, including aggravated artillery of a large woman, home artillery by strangulation and witnesser tampering.

Following his death, his azygous Sad! topped the US singles illustration and posthumous medium Skins reached fig 1 connected the US medium illustration for a 2nd time.