Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - American rapper, Tay-K has been sentenced to 80 years in prison in the de@dly 2017 sh0oting of a photographer in Texas.
Taymor McIntyre, known as Tay-K 47, was found guilty earlier
this week of the murder of Mark Anthony Saldivar. A jury in Bexar County,
Texas, delivered its sentencing on Tuesday after hours of testimony during the
punishment phase of the trial
Tay-K is currently behind bars at the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice, where he will remain in custody until further notice. He was
facing life in prison with the possibility of parole.
"I do realize that while this is a lot of time, you’re
still alive. You can still better yourself," 187th District Court Judge
Stephanie Boyd said to Tay-K directly, per KENS 5. "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.”
The sentencing comes after Tay-K was found guilty on
Monday of murder stemming from the 2017 shooting of Saldivar.
According to prosecutors, the 24-year-old, who was 16 at the
time, fatally shot Saldivar after stealing his photography equipment.
Tay-K was initially facing a capital murder charge, which
the judge reduced to a lesser charge of murder after deliberations on Monday.
The rapper’s attorneys criticized the police investigation,
arguing that the case relied heavily on "self-serving" witness
accounts from individuals who were inside the car at the time of the shooting
“Taymor McIntyre is not guilty of capital murder, murder, or
manslaughter, and the reason for that is very simple,” Tay-K's lawyer John
Hunter told jurors during last week's closing arguments. “You have to do it
right. You have to do the work. And this case clearly demonstrates the work
wasn’t done.”
He had previously been convicted in 2019 for the 2016
sh0oting de@th of 21-year-old Ethan Walker southeast of Fort Worth, Texas, and
was sentenced to 55 years in prison.
His biggest hit, "The Race," garnered 416 million
Spotify streams to date, and was recorded while he was on the run after the
sh0oting.
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