Rapper Tay-Ok Discovered Responsible of Homicide in Second Taking pictures Conviction

Tay-Ok has been convicted of homicide for the second time. The 24-year-old was beforehand sentenced to 55 years in jail in 2019 in connection to a homicide dedicated throughout a botched dwelling invasion. Now, he faces a further 5 to 99 years in jail after being discovered responsible for capturing and killing a photographer whereas fleeing authorities after the preliminary homicide.

In 2017, an arrest warrant was issued for Tay-Ok, born Taymor McIntyre, in Bexar County, Texas. The doc alleged that McIntyre was a part of a bunch who picked up Mark Anthony Saldivar, a 23-year-old photographer in San Antonio, for a photoshoot that was presupposed to happen at a close-by mall. Whereas within the automobile, Saldivar is alleged to have been robbed at gunpoint for his digital camera tools and fatally shot following the altercation, per Fort Price Star-Telegram. 

McIntyre was discovered responsible of homicide, however not responsible of capital homicide, which might have carried a compulsory life sentence. When he was beforehand convicted of homicide within the capturing dying of 21-year-old Ethan Walker in Tarrant County, Texas, a choose additionally dominated that he would concurrently serve a 30-year jail sentence for the primary of three counts of aggravated theft and 13 years every for the remaining two counts from the identical theft.

He was 17 years outdated on the time, and went viral after releasing the video for his single “The Race” — partially impressed by an actual life occasion — in June 2017. After reducing off his ankle bracelet, he fled home arrest forward of a courtroom listening to for his half within the 2016 dwelling invasion which occurred when he was 16. “It wasn’t a part of the plan. The plan was theft. Not killing,” Jeff Kearney, considered one of McIntyre’s protection attorneys, instructed the jury in 2019.