SAN ANTONIO (AP) – The Texas rapper, who played as Tay-K and best known for his 2017 single “The Race,” was convicted of second-degree murder after a ju-degree culpable of fatally shooting a San Antonio man.
Taymor McIntyre lives in prison with the possibility of parole to kill 23-year-old Mark Anthony Saldivar in 2017. McIntyre had already been sentenced to 55 years in another fatal shooting.
Prosecutors said McIntyre shot Sardivar after the rapper tried to steal him. Authorities said McIntyre picked up Sardivar, a photographer, in the car after asking him to take a picture of the rapper for a new song.
McIntyre’s lawyers criticized the police investigation into the shooting, claiming they were reliant too much on selfish statements from car witnesses when the shooting took place.
John Hunter, one of McIntyre’s lawyers, told the ju judge during last week’s discussion. “You have to get it right. You have to do the job, and this case clearly shows that the work was not done.”
The ry judge discovered that McIntyre was not guilty of capital murder. The ju judge will hear the evidence at the penalty stage of the trial before deciding on the judgment.
McIntyre was also convicted in 2019 of the shooting death of 21-year-old Ethan Walker during a home break-in held in Mansfield, southeast of Fort Worth, Texas in 2016.
McIntyre recorded a “race” while he fled authorities for a home break-in.
