American rapper Kidd Creole, a music pioneer hip hopHe was found guilty of murder on Wednesday. The former founding member of the band Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, is in first degree for stabbing a homeless man in New York City in 2017, the Manhattan District Attorney said in a statement. At the age of 61, he will receive his sentence on May 4.
Glover was subject to a jury trial in the New York Supreme Court last week, where his lawyers claimed he killed 55-year-old John Jolly. in self defense on the street at midnight on a summer. District Attorney Alvin Bragg, in his memo, assessed that the suspect had committed “a shocking act of violence” and thanked the jury for their “careful deliberation” that resulted in a criminal complaint three hours later today.
According to the prosecution, Glover crossed Jolly’s side in the eastern district of Midtown in Manhattan, and after an exchange of words, the musician confronted the man he did not know and he is stabbed two times with a knife in the trunk. Glover then fled to his office two blocks away, changed, cleaned his knife, and within minutes took the subway to his Bronx neighborhood where he lived and disposed of the gun in the sewer.
Jolly died in the hospital he was taken to when he was found on the street by some tourists. The rapper’s defense attributed this to malpractice, assuring that his injuries were not fatal, which, according to local media, had been harshly criticized by prosecutors.
The artist was one of the protagonists of rap in New York in the 1970s as a member of the influential group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5, which had their greatest success in the early 1980s and became the first hip hop group in 2007. To be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.