A Compton, California jury today found Freddie Lee Trone guilty of murdering rapper PnB Rock two years ago during a robbery at a Roscoe’s House of Chicken & Waffles restaurant.
The jury deliberated for less than four hours, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. Trone and another defendant, Tremont Jones, were also convicted of two counts of robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery.
PnB Rock (real name Rakim Allen) was wearing “several hundred thousand dollars” worth of jewelry on the day he was murdered, prosecutors said, and had flaunted it online the day of his death.
Jones noticed, and notified Trone, who then sent his 17-year-old son, armed with a gun and a ski mask, to steal Allen’s jewelry, prosecutors said.
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