Rapper Kid Creole gets 16 years for killing homeless man he thought was gay and hitting on him
One of the founding members of the iconic hip hop group Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five will be spending the next 16 years in the slammer after being convicted of stabbing a homeless man to death on the streets of midtown Manhattan back in August 2017. Rapper Kidd Creole, aka Nathaniel Glover, was convicted of manslaughter last month “in the death of John Jolly, who was stabbed twice in the chest with a steak knife.”
At the 62-year-old rapper’s trial, the prosecution said that Glover stabbed the 55-year-old homeless man because he believed that, “Jolly was gay and was hitting on him.” Following the stabbing incident, the rapper reportedly changed his clothes and washed the murder weapon, and was arrested the next day, according to CBS News.
“Mr. Jolly’s death was devastating to his family and those who knew him,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a news release after the sentencing. “Every life we lose to violent crime ripples throughout our entire city, and we will continue to ensure everyone in our borough can live their lives with the sense of safety and security they deserve.”
At the rapper’s trial, Bragg went on to say it was revealed that Glover was walking past Jolly on East 43rd Street between Lexington and Third Avenues when the two began to exchange words. Glover walked past Jolly, and eventually turned around. Glover, who approached Jolly, met him chest-to-chest before stabbing him twice in the torso with a steak knife.
Minutes later, a group of tourists discovered Jolly in the street, and he was transported to the hospital where he died of his stab wounds.
Meanwhile, Glover had left the scene and fled two blocks away to his place of work. There, he changed his clothing and cleaned the knife in an office sink. After approximately 15 minutes, the defendant left, boarded the subway, and disposed of the knife in a sewer near a Bronx subway station. The following day, NYPD officers recovered the knife and arrested Glover at his home in the Bronx.
On April 6, a New York State Supreme Court jury found Glover guilty of Manslaughter in the First Degree.
The New York Times reported Manhattan State Supreme Court Justice Michele Rodney as taking exception with statements made by Glover’s lawyer, Scottie Celestin, who said during the trial that Glover felt threatened because Jolly was a homeless man.
“A life is a life is a life,” Rodney said, adding as she sentenced Glover that the killing was not “somehow justified because the person is homeless.” ~ MSN
Glover’s lawyer plans on appealing his client’s manslaughter conviction.
Headquartered in the Bronx, Kid Creole’s hip hop group, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, came together back in the 1970s. The group has the distinction of being the first rap group to be welcomed into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five was inducted into the Hall in 2007.
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