The man charged with sending his armed 17-year-old son into a Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles restaurant to rob celebrated rapper PnB Rock was found guilty of felony murder, two counts of robbery and one count of conspiracy on Wednesday. The jury took less than four hours to decide Freddie Trone, 42, orchestrated the deadly robbery that claimed the life of the musician, born Rakim Allen, and acted as his son’s getaway driver. Trone’s co-defendant Tremont Jones, 46, also was found guilty of two counts of robbery and one count of conspiracy.
Prosecutors alleged Jones was the one who tipped Trone off to the rapper walking into the Roscoe’s with both his fiancée Stephanie Sibounheuang and a half-million dollars’ worth of jewelry on September 12, 2022. “I’m elated,” Allen’s mom Deannea Allen told Rolling Stone moments after the verdict was read. “I wanted to jump up and scream, ‘Hallelujah.
’ I’m so happy it was quick. We got justice for Rakim. I feel better knowing they’ll be in jail for a long time.
” The jury foreperson, Edwin Lovo, tells Rolling Stone that the panel of four women and eight men focused on the surveillance video of the Buick Enclave that delivered the alleged teen shooter to the scene and picked him up minutes later. Trone testified in his own defense that he was not in the car at the point. Lovo said the jury zoomed in on video of the vehicle fleeding from the scene and identified Trone in the driver’s seat based on his clothing.
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