Corey Walker, who was 19 at the time of the killing, faces 29 years in state prison. He also waived credit for the time he has already served behind bars since his July 9, , arrest. Walker never wanted to happen. Walker β who admitted gang and gun allegations β could have faced life in prison without the possibility of parole if he had been tried and convicted on the original charges, which included murder and the special circumstance allegations of murder during the course of a robbery and murder during the commission of a burglary.
Walker was one of four people and the only adult arrested and charged in the killing of the year-old rapper, whose real name was Bashar Jackson. The other three defendants were all charged in juvenile court, and their names were withheld because of their ages.
In , one of the juvenile defendants, who was 15 at the time of the killing, admitted a first-degree murder charge in juvenile court, along with an allegation he personally discharged a handgun. He also admitted a home-invasion robbery count, and he is expected to remain in a juvenile facility until he turns Another juvenile defendant admitted one count each of voluntary manslaughter and home-invasion robbery, and the third admitted a charge of home-invasion robbery.
The current custody status of those two defendants was not immediately clear. Walker admitted a factual basis for his guilty plea, acknowledging that he became aware that the rapper was staying at the short-term rental home on Hercules Drive in the Hollywood Hills, and that he initially drove with the year-old to surveil the house about a.
LAPD Capt. The suspects were wearing masks and were last seen running from the home and possibly getting into a nearby vehicle. The four were taken into custody just under five months later. Nicki Minaj did a remix of the song a few months later.
