Tay-K Sentenced To 55 Years In Prison For Murder

Tay-K has been sentenced for his role in a 2016 murder.

On Wednesday (July 24), according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's reporter Deanna Boyd, Tay-K  was sentenced to 55 years in prison for the 2016 murder of 21-year-old Ethan Walker. She also reports that the jury assessed a $10,000 fine for his murder conviction and gave him 30 years for aggravated robbery along with a $5,000 fine. The sentence comes down shortly after Tay-K was found guilty of murder last Friday.

When his capital murder trial began on July 16, the 19-year-old admitted that he was involved in the robbery, which included several other people, but did not coordinate Walker's death. Tay, who was born Taymor Mcintyre, pleaded not guilty to capital murder and a separate count of aggravated robbery. He pleaded guilty to two other counts of aggravated robbery.

A big part of the guilty verdict was based on determining whether or not Tay-K should have expected Walker's death while setting up the robbery. Jeff Kearney, who works as one of Tay-K's three defense attorneys for the case, says that while the teenage rapper had agreed to participate in the robbery, he couldn't have predicted that his associate, Latharian Merritt, “was going to go in and intentionally kill for no reason, intentionally kill Ethan Walker.” The jury apparently didn't accept that and they returned with a guilty verdict.