A 42-year-old California man was found guilty Wednesday in the robbery and fatal shooting of rapper PnB Rock, born Rakim Allen, at a South Los Angeles restaurant in 2022. The conviction comes after a deliberation of a two-week trial and four hours. A Los Angeles County found Freddie Trone guilty of one count of murder, two counts of robbery and one count of conspiracy to commit robbery.
According to the Associated Press' report, Allen's murder trial also recognised that the 42-year-old father had told his then-17-year-old son to commit the crime in 2022 as he was having lunch with his girlfriend Stephanie Sibounheuang at Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles on West Manchester Avenue. His son, though not named publicly due to his age at the time of the fatal shooting, was also seen as an accessory to the Philadelphia rapper's murder. The no-19-year-old boy has been charged with murder.
A judge argued that he is not competent to be put on trial and is, therefore, still in a juvenile detention centre. The LA District Attorney's Office has confirmed that he will undergo “mental competency proceedings” on August 29. The Los Angeles County jury also convicted co-defendant Tremont Jones.
The 46-year-old man, who was seen fist-bumping Trone in a parking lot surveillance footage a half hour before Allen's murder, has been found guilty of two counts of second-degree robbery and one count of conspiracy to commit robbery. Though not charged with murder, he was accused of informing Trone abou.