{"id":1857097,"date":"2023-02-22T18:35:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T23:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1857097"},"modified":"2023-02-22T18:36:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T23:36:01","slug":"gang-member-sentenced-for-killing-rapper-nipsey-hussle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gang-member-sentenced-for-killing-rapper-nipsey-hussle\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang Member Sentenced For Killing Rapper Nipsey Hussle"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgang-member-sentenced-for-killing-rapper-nipsey-hussle%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1857097&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A member of one America&#8217;s largest gangs was sentenced Wednesday to 60-years imprisonment for the murder of Grammy-nominated rapper Nipsey Hassle in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Holder Jr., 32 years old, was sentenced by Los Angeles County Superior Judge H. Clay Jacke, to 25 years for murder, 25 years for gun enhancement conviction and 10 years for assault convictions for shooting Hussle&#8217;s two accomplices, The Los Angeles Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2023-02-22\/nipsey-hussle-murder-eric-holder-jr-sentencing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Holder, a Crips gang member, approached Hussle at Marathon Clothing while on a date on March 31, 2019, with a woman. After a brief conversation, Holder returned with two handguns to kill Hussle in broad daylight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/grammy-nominee-shot-dead-outside-his-store-after-james-barrett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hussle<\/a> Following the release his Grammy-nominated debut album 2018, he rose in stardom to national prominence &#8220;Victory Lap.&#8221; He spoke out about his past involvement with a South Los Angeles gang. Hussle (born Ermias) Asghedom was an exemplary member of the community. He generously donated his resources and employed many people through a few shops, including Marathon Clothing.<\/p>\n<p>The LA Times reported that Herman Douglas, a close friend and confidant of the star, spoke at Wednesday&#8217;s sentencing to mourn Hussle\u2019s negative impact on the community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our community right now, we lost everything. Everything we worked for. \u2026 thousands of jobs we don&#8217;t have no more. Homies don&#8217;t have nothing to do. They backsliding, they robbing people now,&#8221; Douglas said. &#8220;All our stores are closed down. The whole community relied on Nip.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Holder and Hussle were both members of the Rollin&#8217; Sixtys Crips street gang. It was one of the most powerful gangs in Los Angeles. Aaron Jansen, Holder&#8217;s defense attorney, argued that Holder was guilty of a crime. &#8220;triggered&#8221; Hussle accused Holder of snitching before other gang members. Jansen stated that Holder had become irrational due to Hussle\u2019s accusation. He argued that Holder should be convicted instead of murder.<\/p>\n<p>John McKinney, the Deputy District Attorney, said Holder was struggling as a rapper and was jealous about Hussle&#8217;s success.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas began to sing after Holder was sentenced by the judge to 60 years imprisonment. &#8220;Hit the Road, Jack&#8221; Before the judge ordered him to be taken out of the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Bickley contributed to the report.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of one of the largest gangs in the U.S. was sentenced to 60 years in prison Wednesday for killing Grammy-nominated rapper Nipsey Hussle in 2019. Eric Holder Jr., 32, was sentenced by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge H. Clay Jacke to 25 years for murder, another 25 years for a gun enhancement &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1857100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7162,19440,4992,19439,6075,4918],"class_list":["post-1857097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-gang","tag-hussle","tag-killing","tag-nipsey","tag-rapper","tag-sentenced"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1857097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1857100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}