June 12, 2025
The ‘Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)’ rapper admitted to killing 34-year-old Frederick Rooks III on January 21, 2021
27-year-old Ricky Lamar Hawk, who makes use of the rap moniker Silentó, has been sentenced to 30 years in jail after he pleaded responsible to prices in reference to the deadly taking pictures of his cousin.
A information launch from the Workplace of the DeKalb County District Lawyer in Georgia introduced that Silentó pleaded responsible however mentally ailing to Voluntary Manslaughter, Aggravated Assault, Possession of a Firearm Through the Fee of a Crime, and Concealing the Loss of life of One other for the killing of 34-year-old Frederick Rooks III. The incident occurred on January 21, 2021, in Decatur. DeKalb County Superior Courtroom Choose Courtney Johnson sentenced him to 30 years in jail.
DeKalb County District Lawyer Sherry Boston acknowledged that an investigation into the crime revealed that DeKalb County cops found Rooks riddled with a number of gunshot wounds within the Panthersville space round 3:37 a.m. after responding to a report of an individual being shot there. After emergency medical employees arrived, they declared him deceased. There have been 10 bullet casings discovered close to his physique.
Surveillance footage from a close-by dwelling confirmed a white BMW leaving the scene of the crime a number of minutes after the gunfire. A member of the family instructed police that he was picked up by Silentó bv from somebody’s home in a white BMW SUV.
Cops took Silentó into custody practically two weeks later, on February 1. Whereas talking to investigators, the rapper admitted that he shot his cousin.
After he was arrested, ballistics testing matched the bullet casings that have been retrieved from the scene of the taking pictures to a gun Silentó had when he was detained. GPS knowledge for his BMW positioned him on the scene of the homicide.
The Related Press reported that the rapper acknowledged years in the past, throughout an interview in 2019, that he struggled with melancholy and psychological sickness rising up.
“I’ve been preventing demons my complete life, my complete life.”
“Melancholy doesn’t go away you once you develop into well-known; it simply provides extra stress.”
He reportedly tried to commit suicide in 2020. In August 2020, the rapper was arrested in Santa Ana, California, for home violence. Two months later, in October 2020, Silentó was arrested after police accused him of driving 143 miles per hour on Interstate 85 in DeKalb County.
After Silentó’s arrest for killing Rooks, his publicist mentioned he had been “struggling immensely from a collection of psychological well being sicknesses.”
Silento recorded successful file when he launched “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” in 2015.
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