Rapper of one among most viral songs ever made heartbreaking admission years earlier than being sentenced to 30 years in jail
The rapper Silentó, actual title Ricky Lamar Hawk, spoke about his psychological well being earlier than killing his cousin in 2021.
He yesterday (11 June) pleaded responsible however mentally in poor health to voluntary manslaughter aggravated assault, possessing a gun whereas committing a criminal offense and concealing the demise of one other.
He had made a plea cope with prosecutors that resulted in a homicide cost in opposition to him being dropped.
On 21 January, 2021, Hawk’s cousin Frederick Rooks III was discovered by police with gunshot wounds to his leg and face outdoors a house close to town of Decatur, Georgia.
He was pronounced lifeless on the scene, with police saying they discovered 10 bullet casings close to Rooks’ physique and a safety video displaying a white BMW driving away after gunshots.
A member of the family informed the investigation that Silentó had picked up Rooks, 34, in a automotive matching that description, with the automobile’s GPS and different footage confirming it.
After he was arrested, Silentó confessed to taking pictures his cousin and checks matched the bullet casings to a gun he had in his possession upon his arrest.
Who’s Silentó?
27-year-old Ricky Lamar Hawk, rapper title Silentó, first reached viral fame in 2015 when he launched the music ‘Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)’ that rapidly propelled him to stardom.
He had launched the music after shedding a highschool expertise present and it kicked off a dance craze.
Silentó went on to launch extra music that turned out to be much less profitable that his breakout music.
He additionally spoke in regards to the difficulties of his childhood, having stated he grew up in a household that led him to witness violence and psychological sickness throughout his youthful years.
Previous to being arrested for killing his cousin he had been arrested in August 2020 on a home violence cost, and he was then charged with assault with a lethal weapon after he’d entered a home in search of his girlfriend and swung a hatchet at two folks.
He was arrested once more in October 2020 after police clocked him doing 143mph on Interstate 85 in DeKalb County.
What was Silentó’s sentence?
Having made a plea deal, a decide has sentenced Silentó to 30 years in jail for his crimes.
The preliminary cost of malice homicide introduced in opposition to him when he was arrested has been decreased to voluntary manslaughter.
The 27-year-old’s 30 12 months sentence will embody the time he has spent behind bars since being arrested in 2021.
According to The Impartial, the siblings of Frederick Rooks informed DeKalb County Superior Courtroom Choose Courtney L. Johnson that there ought to have been an extended sentence.
His psychological well being
Silentó spoke about his psychological well being on a number of events, together with throughout an look on medical speak present The Medical doctors in 2019.
He stated: “I’ve been preventing demons my complete life, my complete life.
“Despair doesn’t go away you whenever you change into well-known, it simply provides extra strain. And whereas everyone’s you, they’re additionally judging you.”
“I don’t know if I can actually be glad, I don’t know if these demons will ever go away.”
His publicist stated that in 2020 the rapper had tried to take his personal life, and added that on the time he was arrested for killing his cousin he was ‘struggling immensely from a sequence of psychological well being sicknesses’.
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