Rapper Silento Sentenced to 30 Years for Killing His Cousin
Rapper Silentó — finest identified for his hit track “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” — has been sentenced to 30 years in jail for killing his cousin.
Silentó, actual title Ricky Lamar Hawk, pleaded responsible however mentally ailing on Wednesday, June 12, in DeKalb County, Georgia, on expenses associated to the 2021 deadly capturing of his cousin, Frederick Rooks, studies the Atlanta Journal-Structure.
Rooks was discovered useless from a number of gunshot wounds at a house in Panthersville, Georgia, on January 21, 2021. He was 34.
In response to the Atlanta Journal-Structure, Silentó, 27, pleaded responsible to a diminished cost of voluntary manslaughter as a part of a plea deal. He additionally pleaded responsible to aggravated assault, possession of a firearm in the course of the fee of a felony and concealing a dying of one other. A felony homicide cost was dropped, stated the outlet.
Silentó was initially charged with malice homicide upon his arrest in February 2021. “At present, Ricky Hawk, 23, was arrested for the homicide of his cousin Frederick Rooks, 34. On January 21, the DeKalb County Police Division investigated Rooks’ dying after he was discovered shot on Deep Shoals Circle. Hawk is within the DeKalb County Jail charged with Homicide,” the DeKalb County Police Division stated in a press release by way of X on the time.
The rapper’s sentence will embody credit score for time served since his preliminary arrest in February 2021.
Following his arrest, Silentó’s publicist on the time, Chanel Hudson, shared by way of social media that the rapper had been coping with psychological well being points.
“Please ship my shopper Silento some constructive vibrations,” Hudson stated, per Advanced. “Over the previous a number of years, Ricky has been struggling immensely from a sequence of psychological sicknesses. We’ll proceed in his efforts of remedy, however we ask within the meantime the general public uplift him and his household in quick prayer & constructive power!! Ricky is an attractive soul, and we hope that the identical individuals who got here up whippin’ and nay naying with him, proceed to help him and lifted in prayer. God bless.”
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Silentó had quite a few run-ins with the regulation within the months main as much as his February 2021 arrest. In August 2020, he was arrested twice on home violence and assault with a lethal weapon expenses in California. In October that 12 months, he was arrested for rushing in DeKalb County. (It’s not clear what turned of those expenses.)
The Georgia native rose to fame in 2015 with the track “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae),” the video for which has amassed over 1.9 billion views on YouTube. The observe additionally reached No. 3 on the Billboard Scorching 100.