3 Men Convicted of XXXTentacion's 2018 Murder Sentenced to Life in Prison

The men will have no option of parole or early release for good behavior, NBC Miami reports

Three men who were previously found guilty of murdering rapper XXXTentacion have been sentenced to life in prison.

On Thursday, Michael Boatwright, 28, Trayvon Newsome, 24, and Dedrick Williams, 26, were sentenced to life in prison by Judge Michael Usan in a Florida courtroom for orchestrating the 20-year-old rapper's killing during a June 2018 robbery.

Soloman Sobande, the rapper's manager read a statement on behalf of the family during the sentencing, according to NBC Miami.

"This is a loss we will never truly recover from," Sobande said, per the outlet. "We will never get to see Jahseh live to his full potential, we will never get to watch him grow old, we will never get to watch him be a father."

The three men will have no option of parole or early release for good behavior, the outlet reports.

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Robert Allen, the fourth man arrested for the murder, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last year and accepted a plea deal in exchange for his cooperation, CBS Miami reports. He is yet to be sentenced.

XXXTentacion, born Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy, was trying to exit a motorsports store in Florida's Deerfield Beach neighborhood five years ago when his BMW was blocked by an SUV.

A passenger riding with the rapper apparently fled the scene after they were confronted by Boatwright and Newsom, who shot XXXTentacion and robbed him of a Louis Vuitton bag filled with $50,000 in cash.

Boatwright fired the shot that killed the "Look at Me!" performer while Newsom was the other gunman, prosecutors said. Williams, who apparently organized the murder, was noted to be driving the getaway car.

According to the New York Times, the jury made the decision to find the men guilty partly based on testimony from Allen, who was also at the scene.

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Other evidence provided included the store's surveillance footage of two men apparently watching XXXTentacion, mobile data confirming their location and use of the SUV as well as video footage of them flaunting the cash shortly after the murder.

The jury reportedly reviewed over 1,000 text messages as well as footage from the defendants' phones, which included a photo of a news story about the incident, throughout the week of deliberations. While Boatwright, Newsome and Williams were tried together, jurors were instructed to make separate decisions on each of their guilty or innocent statuses.

The three men's defense lawyers reportedly "argued that DNA evidence failed to link them to the shooting," according to NYT. Their team also said Allen was an unreliable witness due to past felony convictions and attempted to link XXXTentacion's murder to his beef with rapper Drake, who was previously dismissed from giving a deposition.

"Plans hatched in hell do not have angels for witnesses," said lead prosecutor Pascale Achille, following closing arguments, per the Associated Press.

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