& # 39; Suge & # 39; Knight, former rap mogul, jailed for 28 years for killing a man with a car | The music

Former rap magnate Marion "Suge" Knight was sentenced to 28 years in prison for the death of a man he crushed in front of a Compton hamburger stand almost four years ago.

53-year-old Knight listened to the family members react to the court, describing Terry Carter, 55, as a deeply devoted husband, father, grandfather and friend of the hearing.

Carter's daughter, Crystal, called Knight "selfish and disgusting shame for the human species."

Knight wore a big cross-dress and orange in prison attire during Thursday's sentence, ending a nearly four-year saga of the court after the fatal confrontation of 2015. He was fighting with a long-time rival. date through the window of his van in front of the kiosk and hit this man with his truck before passing over Carter.

Knight's numerous lawyers had claimed that he was acting in self-defense, but the co-founder of Death Row Records did not argue against murder and willful homicide, avoiding a trial for murder and attempted murder.

Jail time is the lowest point in a long decline for Knight, one of the most important figures in hip-hop history. At its peak in the mid-1990s, he was publishing extremely popular LPs that are now considered classics by Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur.

Knight was at the center of the quarrel between rappers on the east coast and the west coast that marked the middle of this decade. Shakur was in Knight's car when he was killed during a driving attack in Las Vegas in 1996.

Knight was convicted of armed robbery and assault. He lost control of death row after his bankruptcy. His previous convictions made him ineligible for probation, Judge Ronald Coen of the Los Angeles Superior Court ruled on Thursday.

In January 2015, he fought with his long-time rival, Cle "Bone" Sloan, consultant on the NWA biopic, Straight Outta Compton.

In a moment captured on a surveillance video, Knight returned to his truck to join Sloan, who was injured, before driving him to businessman Terry Carter, who died as a result of his injuries. injury. Knight's lawyers said it was an act of self-defense.

While intentional homicide normally entails an 11-year sentence, Knight's conviction and previous crimes trigger California's three strikes law. This doubles the sentence of manslaughter and adds another six years.

This agreement also allows Knight to evade two other cases, both in 2014. He was accused of stealing a camera from a woman and sending threatening text messages to Straight Outta Compton's director, F Gary. Gray.