A US rapper, Taymor McIntyre, whose stage name is Tay-K, has been convicted of murder for a second time after a jury found him guilty of fatally shooting a San Antonio man, Mark Anthony Saldivar.
Tay-K is facing life in prison with the possibility of parole for killing the 23-year-old in 2017.
He had already been serving a 55-year jail term over a separate fatal shooting.
Prosecutors argued that Tay-K shot Saldivar after the rapper tried to rob him.
But his lawyers criticized the police investigation of the shooting, insisting the case relied too much on self-serving statements from witnesses in the car when the shooting happened.
“Taymor McIntyre is not guilty of capital murder, murder, or manslaughter, and the reason for that is very simple.
“You have to do it right. You have to do the work. And this case clearly demonstrates the work wasn’t done,” John Hunter, one of McIntyre’s attorneys, told jurors during closing arguments last week.
The jury found Tay-K not guilty of capital murder, which would have meant a life sentence without the chance of parole. They will now hear evidence in the trial’s punishment phase before deciding on a sentence.
