Wonder of a single blow is declared guilty of a horrible crime and is 30 years old

Decatur, Georgia. He silent, Atlanta’s rapper known for his successful song “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)”, declared himself guilty but with mental illness on Wednesday of voluntary homicide and other charges in death from 2021 shots of his 34 -year -old cousin.

The 27 -year -old rapper, whose legal name is Ricky Lamar Hawk, was sentenced to 30 years in prison, said Dekalb County District prosecutor Sherry Boston, in a statement.

Hawk also declared himself guilty of aggravated assault, possessing a weapon while committing a crime and hiding the death of another. A murder position was withdrawn as part of the guilt agreement.

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The Dekalb County Police found Frederick Rooks III shot in the leg and face in the early hours of January 21, 2021 outside a house in a suburban area near Decatur. Police said the 10 bullet guts found near Rooks’ body, and the security video of a nearby house showed a white BMW SUV that accelerates shortly after the shots.

A member of the Rooks family told the Police that silent had picked up the towers in a white BMW SUV, and the GPS data and other cameras put the vehicle on the shooting site.

He silent confessed about 10 days after he was arrested, police said. The ballistics tests coincided with the bullet covers with a weapon that had silent when it was arrested, authorities said.

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The Rooks brothers and sisters told the Judge of the Superior Court of Dekalb Courtney L. Johnson County before sentenced that he silenced he should have received a longer sentence, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

The rapper was a high school student in the Atlanta suburbs in 2015 when he launched “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” and saw it a dance fashion. Silentó made several other albums, but said in an interview with the “The Doctor” medical interview program in 2019 that fought with depression and had grown up in a family where he witnessed mental illnesses and violence.

“I’ve been fighting demons all my life, all my life,” he said in 2019.

“Depression does not leave you when you become famous, just add more pressure,” he said silently, urging others to get help. “And while everyone looks at you, they are also judging you.”

“I don’t know if I can be really happy, I don’t know if these demons will disappear.”

Silntó had been fighting in the months before arrest. His publicist, Chanel Hudson, said he had tried to commit suicide in 2020.

In August 2020, silentó was arrested in Santa Ana, California, for a domestic violence position. The next day, the Los Angeles Police Department accused him of assault with a mortal weapon after the witnesses said he entered a house where he did not know anyone who was looking for his girlfriend and balanced an ax to two people before being disarmed.

In October 2020, he was arrested after the police said they registered it by driving 143 miles per hour (230 kilometers per hour) in the interest 85 in the Dekalb County.

Hudson said at the time of the arrest of silenting in the murder of Torres that he had been “suffering greatly by a series of mental health diseases.”