Rapper Kidd Creole — a founding member of the famous hip-hop team Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 — was sentenced Wednesday to 16 yrs at the rear of bars for the stabbing demise of a homeless male through a dispute in Manhattan.
The 61-yr-previous hip-hop pioneer, whose actual name is Nathaniel Glover, was found guilty of manslaughter in April for the 2017 killing of John Jolly, a 55-calendar year-previous vagrant and sex offender.
“The defendant had dedicated a senseless and unwarranted act of violence that took the lifetime of one particular of the city’s most susceptible populations — the homeless,” claimed prosecutor Mark Dahl, who requested that Glover be sentenced to 18 decades in prison.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer — whose band churned out chart-topping tunes this kind of as “Freedom” and “The Message” in the early 1980s — experienced confronted up to 25 yrs in prison.
Throughout the sentencing listening to, Glover claimed he’d been wrongly cast as a killer.
“I’m very dissatisfied in the way that that this whole problem played out. I have been portrayed as a callous and senseless [killer]… which is considerably from the human being who I am,” he stated in Manhattan Supreme Courtroom.
“I’ve been slandered and all this produced me feel as if I am a individual who actually has no regret and no repentance.”
Glover extra he was “disappointed” in the way the proceedings progressed, including, “I also come to feel that at a sure issue the truth of all of this will be uncovered and I will be exonerated.”
But Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg mentioned the circumstance was an instance of his business office cracking down on violent crime.
“Mr. Jolly’s demise was devastating to his relatives and those who understood him,” Bragg said in a statement following the sentencing. “This case helps make obvious that if you commit violent crime, we will maintain you accountable.”
In August 2017, Glover acquired into a shouting match with Jolly at the corner of East 44th St. and 3rd Avenue ahead of the stabbing took put, law enforcement reported right after his arrest .
During the trial, Glover’s law firm Scottie Celestin claimed he acted in self-protection and that Jolly’s stab wounds were being not lifestyle-threatening.
Celestin formerly blamed Jolly’s dying on a combine of alcohol and a sedative that staff at Bellevue Clinic gave to him because he was getting combative.
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