Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five’s Kidd Creole found guilty of manslaughter
nme.comGrandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, has been found guilty of manslaughter after stabbing a homeless man to death.The incident happened on August 1 2017, when Creole (real name Nathaniel Glover) encountered John Jolly, a 55-year-old homeless man, on the street in midtown Manhattan.
Glover ended up stabbing Jolly twice in the chest with a steak knife. He died in hospital shortly after.The next day New York City police arrested Glover and charged him with second-degree murder.“To tell the truth, I thought he was gay and because I thought he was gay, and he was saying that to me, ‘what’s up,’ I was thinking that he was thinking [that] I was gay,” Glover said in a videotaped interview with police.“So I was a little annoyed by that.
He approached me. I got a little nervous,” Glover claimed. “So then I tried to back up a little bit, and he moved forward, and then I just took the knife and stabbed him … I wish I never would have seen him.
It’s all my fault, because I chose to stab him. I have to take responsibility for that.”Glover claimed the incident was self-defence, with his lawyer telling the jury: “Ladies and gentlemen, this is New York City.
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