Kidd Creole found guilty of first-degree manslaughter in 2017 fatal stabbing of homeless man in NYC

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Kidd Creole was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter in a New York City court in connection with the fatal stabbing of a homeless man named John Jolly, prosecutors said Wednesday.The 62-year-old musical artist, a member of the group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, faces a prison sentence of up to 25 years after a jury delivered the verdict after hours of deliberation following closing arguments in the case.Kidd Creole, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, dropped his head when the jury delivered its guilty verdict, an eyewitness in the court told Rolling Stone.

The latest:Kidd Creole, 62, was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter in a New York City court, in connection with the fatal stabbing of a homeless man named John Jolly, prosecutors said Wednesday.

He was snapped in 2017 at his arraignment in the wake of the incidentIn the years prior to the stabbing, Glover had been living by himself in a Bronx apartment and working in a copy shop.The incident took place on August 1, 2017, when he was headed to work and had a confrontation with Jolly, 55, in midtown Manhattan, using a steak knife to stab the man, who died in a nearby hospital following the encounter.

A wounded Jolly was found by tourists minutes after he was attacked, prosecutors said, and Glover fled the scene and went to his office, where he washed the knife, and later disposed of it in a sewer at the Bronx subway station, TMZ reported.Police recovered the weapon the following day, when Glover was arrested and charged with second-degree murder in connection with the stabbing.