The man who murdered Nipsey Hussle in a daylight ambush outside the beloved rapper’s clothing store in Los Angeles was sentenced to 60 years to life in prison, The Associated Press reports. Eric Ronald Holder Jr., 33, appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday, Feb. 22, and received his punishment …
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A judge has rejected a request from Eric Holder Jr. — Nipsey Hussle’s convicted killer — to reduce his sentence from first-degree murder to second-degree murder or manslaughter. On Monday, Judge H. Clay Jacke denied a defense motion for a new trial, and scheduled Holder’s sentencing for Feb. 22. Holder …
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Nipsey Hussle’s admitted killer is claiming jurors delivered a contradictory verdict back in July, so he’s filing a new motion asking that his premeditated murder conviction be reduced to voluntary manslaughter, his defense lawyer tells Rolling Stone. Eric Ronald Holder Jr., 33, appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom Thursday for …
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South Central Los Angeles has a star in Hollywood. On Monday, the late Nipsey Hussle — a native of the city’s Crenshaw neighborhood — was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of Amoeba Music. The event coincided with what would’ve been the rapper’s 37th …
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Three years after Grammy-winning rapper, visionary entrepreneur and hometown hero Nipsey Hussle was gunned down in a stunning public slaying outside his South Los Angeles clothing store, his admitted killer was convicted of first-degree murder on Wednesday. A jury of nine women and three men decided Eric Ronald Holder Jr. …
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The man who admittedly gunned down beloved rapper Nipsey Hussle in a caught-on-video attack three years ago rested his strikingly short defense in less than three hours at his murder trial Wednesday — a day after he allegedly was jumped and beaten unconscious by fellow inmates in county jail. Eric …
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The man accused of murdering celebrated rapper Nipsey Hussle was physically assaulted in custody and unable to attend his trial on Tuesday due to medical treatment for his injuries, his lawyer confirms to Rolling Stone. Eric Holder Jr., 32, was beaten up at some point after he left a Los …
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The man accused of gunning down Nipsey Hussle doesn’t deny he shot the celebrated rapper in a stunning strip-mall slaying three years ago — only that it was a premeditated act that also involved the attempted murders of two other men, his lawyer said Wednesday in an opening statement that …
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Nipsey Hussle’s music career and cannabis business are the subjects of the new documentaryThe Marathon (Cultivation), which premiered on YouTube on Friday. The film follows the late rapper/entrepreneur as he launched his music career and opened his first dispensary, where he developed the Marathon OG cannabis strain produced by The …
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More than three years after celebrated rapper Nipsey Hussle was gunned down in the parking lot of his Marathon clothing store in a shocking daylight ambush, his alleged killer is due to begin his murder trial in a matter of weeks. Suspected shooter Eric Holder, 32, appeared in a Los …
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