Wednesday, the man convicted of fatally shooting rapper Nipsey Hussle was sentenced to 60 years to life in prison.
Eric R. Holder Jr., 33, was found guilty of first-degree murder in July 2022 for the March 2019 shooting of the Grammy Award-winning rapper that occurred outside his Marthon clothing store in Los Angeles. Holder was also found guilty of two counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter after two other men at the scene were injured in the shooting.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge H. Clay Jacke handed down the sentence Wednesday after it had been postponed several times since last September.
AP reports that prior to the sentencing, the court heard from Herman “Cowboy” Douglas, Nipsey’s close friend who was standing with him when he was killed.
“Nipsey was my friend, he was like a son, he was like a dad,” Douglas said. “Our community right now, we lost everything, everything we worked for.”
He continued telling the judge, “I don’t care what you give this guy. It ain’t about the time. I just want to know why. The world wants to know why. Why someone would do that?”
Nipsey was just 33 years old at the time of his death.
