Jurors See Cellphone Data of XXXTentacion’s Accused Killers – Billboard

Jurors within the trial of three males accused of murdering rising rap star XXXTentacion concluded their fourth day of deliberations Monday by reviewing virtually 1,200 textual content messages and a number of other movies and images seized from two of their cellphones.

Some of the movies and images confirmed the defendants flashing fistfuls of $100 payments hours after the June 18, 2018, capturing of XXXTentacion outdoors a suburban Fort Lauderdale bike dealership. He was killed by two armed robbers who stole $50,000 he was carrying in a Louis Vuitton bag.

There was additionally a photograph of a narrative from a information web site in regards to the capturing, images from purchasing and relationship apps, an apparently random picture of then-first girl Melania Trump, movies of one defendant in a pedicab with a girl and a Father’s Day greeting.

The jurors made their request within the afternoon, asking to see the information from the telephones of alleged shooter Michael Boatwright, 28, and the accused getaway driver and ringleader Dedrick Williams, 26, from the day earlier than and day of the capturing.

Williams despatched and obtained greater than 950 textual content messages throughout that point and Boatwright had greater than 200. Jurors needed to crowd close to a projection display on the entrance of the courtroom to learn them; they may not be learn from the gallery.

The jurors didn’t ask for any information from the telephones of alleged second gunman Trayvon Newsome, 24, or alleged co-conspirator Robert Allen, 26. Allen testified towards his former buddies after pleading responsible final yr to second-degree homicide.

Boatwright, Williams and Newsome are charged with first-degree homicide and armed theft and face necessary life sentences if convicted. Prosecutors didn’t search the demise penalty. The jurors have deliberated about 15 hours since getting the case late Wednesday on the finish of four-weeks of testimony. Deliberations will resume Tuesday.

XXXTentacion, whose actual title was Jahseh Onfroy, had simply left Riva Motorsports, the place he had been bikes to buy, when his BMW was blocked by an SUV that swerved in entrance.

Surveillance video confirmed that two masked gunmen emerged and confronted the 20-year-old rapper on the driver’s window, and one shot him repeatedly. They then grabbed the bag with the cash, bought again into the SUV and sped away. The good friend was not harmed.

Allen testified that the lads set out that day to commit robberies and went to the bike store to purchase Williams a masks. There they noticed the rapper and determined to make him their goal. Allen and Williams went contained in the store to substantiate it was him.

They then went again to the SUV they’d rented, waited for XXXTentacion to emerge and ambushed him, in response to testimony. Prosecutors mentioned surveillance video from the dealership, cellphone information and the movies of the lads flashing cash ties them to the capturing.

The males’s attorneys mentioned Allen is mendacity and that their DNA was not discovered on the artist. Attorneys for some of the lads mentioned that whereas the money-flashing movies have been “stupid,” they don’t show their shoppers have been truly concerned within the capturing and theft.

The rapper, who pronounced his title “Ex ex ex ten-ta-see-YAWN,” was a platinum-selling rising star who tackled points together with prejudice and melancholy in his songs. He additionally drew criticism over unhealthy conduct and a number of arrests, together with expenses that he severely beat and abused his girlfriend.