🎵 2022-03-26 18:28:00 – Paris/France.
Kidd Creole, part of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, the first rap group to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is on trial for murder in New York.
Créole, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, is accused of stabbing a homeless man to death in 2017. His trial began on Friday.
The rapper claims self-defense in the case. Creole allegedly stabbed John Jolly twice in the chest with a steak knife after he became enraged because, according to his lawyer, he thought Jolly was gay and hit on him.
The stabbing incident happened as Creole was on his way to his maintenance job in midtown Manhattan around midnight on August 1, 2017. Jolly allegedly asked him "What's up?" to precipitate the confrontation. .
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is New York. It's 12 o'clock in the evening. Who says 'What's up?' to you with good intentions? Creole's attorney, Scottie Celestin, told the jury. “His fear for his life was reasonable. »
Celestin also claimed that Jolly died from a dose of a sedative benzodiazepine in the hospital, not the stab wounds.
Assistant District Attorney Mark Dahl countered the argument. He said Creole confessed to police and did not stab Jolly in self-defense, but rather angry because he thought Jolly was hitting him. “The defendant admitted to having pulled out a kitchen knife and repeatedly thrust it into the body of a stranger. in the street, killing him,” Dahl said. "Was there anything that would stop him from just running away from Mr. Jolly?" No. »
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five are best known for their 1982 rap song, "The Message." The group formed in the late 1970s in the Bronx and became the first rap group to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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