Eric Holder Jr., the man accused in the 2019 murder of Ermias Asghedom a.k.a. Nipsey Hussle, was found guilty of first-degree murder today (July 6), the New York Times reports.
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Nipsey Hussle’s murder trial has finally begun, and we are already learning new information about the rapper’s final moments and what led to his tragic and untimely death.
As Perezcious readers know, the musician was shot dead on March 31, 2019 outside of his clothing store in Los Angeles. Eric Holder was soon charged with one count of murder, two counts of attempted murder (for shooting two other people at the scene), and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. He has pleaded not guilty and faces up to life in prison if convicted. He is currently being held in solitary confinement over concerns he’ll be killed by other inmates, per TMZ.
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During Wednesday’s hearing, Hussle’s close friend, Herman Douglas, testified about the 33-year-old’s final moments — and the details are harrowing!
Douglas, who knew both men since they were all members of the South Los Angeles Rollin 60s Crips street gang, recalled witnessing a conversation between the men outside of Hussle’s store shortly before the murder. Nothing was too out of the ordinary and Holder didn’t seem angry or agitated, even when Nipsey told him about rumors that were spreading about him. Despite previous reports, he claimed Nipsey never called Eric a snitch, TMZ reported he said:
The New York Post shared a similar quote which read:
Paperwork usually refers to police documents. Deputy District Attorney John McKinney also explained in his opening statement that respect is incredibly important in gang culture — making even the slightest suggestion of being a snitch offensive and dangerous. Prosecutors have previously
Eric Holder Jr., the man accused in the 2019 murder of Ermias Asghedom a.k.a. Nipsey Hussle, was found guilty of first-degree murder today (July 6), the New York Times reports.
Jurors found a 32-year-old man guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday for the 2019 fatal shooting of rapper Nipsey Hussle.
A jury found a 32-year-old man guilty of murdering rapper Nipsey Hussle back in 2019. Eric R. Holder Jr.
tweeted the news Wednesday.Holder’s trial began in June, three years after the rapper was shot in South Los Angeles outside his clothing store. The jury reached a verdict within the expected time of four weeks.Holder Jr.
Eric R. Holder Jr. has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2019 killing of rapper Nipsey Hussle.
Nipsey Hussle has been convicted of first-degree murder.32-year-old Eric Holder Jr. shot Hussle outside his Marathon Clothing store in Los Angeles on March 31, 2019.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticEric Holder Jr., the gang member who shot superstar rapper Nipsey Hussle to death in 2019, has been convicted of first-degree murder in a Los Angeles court.Beyond the murder conviction, Holder was also convicted of several other charges, including attempted voluntary manslaughter and assault for shooting two other men who survived the shootings. He faces a possible life sentence.Jurors went only an hour into their second day of deliberation before announcing they had reached a verdict siding with the Los Angeles Country prosecution.
Nipsey Hussle in March 2019, has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the trial that finally started and ended after a years-long delay due to the pandemic.The verdict was announced Wednesday in a Los Angeles courtroom. Holder had initially pleaded not guilty and had been held behind bars in lieu of $6.5 million bail. The jury deliberated for less than an hour on the second day of deliberations.
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Rapper Nipsey Hussle was gunned down outside his clothing shop in a calculated, premeditated fashion by a man upset over a discussion about snitching, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday at the outset of a long-delayed murder trial. Deputy District Attorney John McKinney said during his opening statement that there’s "no doubt" Eric R. Holder knew in advance that he would kill Hussle.The prosecutor described the sequence of events, including the talk about "snitching," before Hussle’s shooting death three years ago in the South Los Angeles neighborhood where both men grew up and the rapper was helping revitalize.Two others were wounded in the shooting.
Nipsey Hussle murder trial has opened, more than three years after the Los Angeles rapper was shot dead.Defendant Eric Ronald Holder Jr., who has admitted that he shot the Grammy award-winning rapper in March 2019 outside the Marathon clothing shop that he co-owned, appeared for his arraignment yesterday (June 15).He is charged with one count of murder and one of possession of a firearm by a felon, along with two each of attempted murder and assault with a firearm. The latter charges relate to two bystanders, Kerry Lathan and Shermi Villanueva, who were injured in the alleged shooting.Holder, 23, has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder, two counts of attempted murder for the bullets that struck Lathan and Villanueva, two counts of assault with a firearm, and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon.The defendant concedes that he shot Hussle, causing his death, but denies that the killing was premeditated and instead happened in “the heat of passion”, per his lawyer Aaron Jansen.It’s claimed that Lathan was shot once in back and Villanueva allegedly suffered a graze wound after a bullet struck his belt buckle.“This is a case about the heat of passion,” Jansen told jurors in an LA courtroom [via Rolling Stone].
Nipsey Hussle in March 2019, is underway and Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney John McKinney claimed to the jury on Wednesday that the famed artist's shooting was premeditated and deliberate.In his opening statements, McKinney alleged, per that there was «no doubt» Holder had thought out his actions and shot Hussle — whose real name was Ermias Asghedom — with the intention of killing him.McKinney opened his statements by showing the jury a video from the aftermath of the killing, as bystanders attempted to resuscitate Hussle after he was gunned down outside his clothing store in South Los Angeles.Hussle and Holder had publicly gotten into an argument several minutes before Holder returned to the store with a gun and opened fire. His actions were captured on several security cameras, and Holder's attorney, public defender Aaron Jansen, argued in his opening statements that «this is a case about the heat of passion.»According to Jansen, Hussle had accused Holder of «snitching» during their heated argument, and the remark made Holder «so enflamed and enraged» that he acted without thinking and without having time to «cool off.»McKinney rejected this assertion to the jury, telling them, «You’re going to hear and see evidence that he had plenty of opportunity to think about what he was going to do before he did it.