Tay-K Could Face Up To 99 Years In Prison After Latest Murder Conviction

Tay-K has now been handed his second murder conviction. The 24-year-old rapper may face up to 99 years in prison for killing a photographer while evading the police who were chasing him down for his first murder.

The Long Beach, Calif.-born rapper has already been handed a 55-year sentence for his 2016 murder that took occurred during a home invasion. Ultimately, it was determined that he would concurrently serve a 30-year prison sentence for one of his three counts of aggravated robbery and 13 years each for the other two counts. Tay-K was 16 years old when this murder occurred.

While he was supposed to be serving a house arrest sentence, he cut off his ankle bracelet and fled law enforcement ahead of the hearing for his home invasion. The controversial rapper infamously documented this story in his hit song “The Race” in 2017. Watch the conviction and listen to “The Race” below.

In 2017, a warrant was issued for Tay-K’s arrest in Bexar County, Texas. The Arlington, Texas native and a group picked up 23-year-old photographer Mark Anthony Saldivar for a photoshoot, but ended up robbing him at gunpoint for his camera. They ultimately killed Saldivar, according to Fort Worth-Star Telegram. Now, he has received his second murder conviction. While it is not a capital murder conviction, which would have meant an automatic life sentence, he is facing anywhere between five and 99 years in prison.

Tay-K burst onto the music scene in 2017 with his track “The Race,” which was part of his only album #SantanaWorld (+). 21 Savage and Young Nudy joined him on the remix to his hit record, and Maxo Kream appeared on the remix to “I <3 My Choppa.” Tay-K shared “After You” the following year and has been inactive musically since then due to his legal constraints.

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