On Friday, April 11, a jury found Tay-K guilty of murder in connection to the 2017 killing of Mark Saldivar, according to XXL.
The trial went down in Bexar County, Texas, and after two weeks of back-and-forth and a day of deliberation, the jury decided Tay-K, real name Taymor McIntyre, was guilty of murder, but not capital murder, which would’ve automatically landed him life without parole.
Back in April 2017, Saldivar got robbed and shot in a San Antonio Chick-fil-A parking lot. Tay-K was on the run at the time, already wanted for the 2016 murder of Ethan Walker. While ducking the law, he famously dropped “The Race,” a track that blew up and went viral but also ended up being used as evidence against him in court.
The capital murder charge would’ve been the worst-case scenario, but the jury hit him with the lesser murder charge instead. Still, it’s not light. Tay-K is already doing 55 years for the Walker case, and now with this second murder conviction, his chances of seeing the outside any time soon are slim to none. Tay-K’s rise and fall has been wild, going from viral for his song “The Race” to a cautionary tale in just a few years.
His story’s been at the center of debates about how the streets and music mix, especially when real-life crimes end up getting glorified in songs. Now, with another body on his record, the rap game might be hearing less and less from Tay-K as the years go on.
