PnB Rock ’s mother averted her eyes and wiped tears Monday as a prosecutor displayed an autopsy photo of her son during closing arguments in the trial of two men charged in connection with the rapper’s 2022 murder . “I wasn’t prepared for those pictures. It’s very devastating.
I never wanted to see those pictures,” Deannea Allen told Rolling Stone as she left the courthouse in Compton, Calif., on the ninth and final day of testimony in the case. The mother said she only learned about the start of the trial from social media and “moved mountains” to travel from Philadelphia to attend in person before it ended.
“I’m here to get justice. I want justice. This was my son, my child,” Deannea said of the acclaimed musician, born Rakim Allen.
“I want the jury to know he has a family who loves him and wants to support him. I learned a lot today.” In his closing argument, Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Timothy Richardson urged jurors to convict defendants Freddie Trone and Tremont Jones for their alleged roles in the high-profile homicide.
Richardson argued that Trone, 42, should be found guilty of murder because he knew his 17-year-old son was “impulsive” and “dangerous” and allegedly still sent him inside a Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles restaurant in South Los Angeles on Sept. 12, 2022, with a loaded semi-automatic firearm and a mandate to rob Allen and his fiancée. Testifying in his own defense on Friday and again Monday, Trone denie.