{"id":2446669,"date":"2019-07-23T13:42:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T19:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=862561"},"modified":"2019-07-23T13:42:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T19:42:03","slug":"tay-k-sentenced-to-55-years-in-prison-following-murder-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/tay-k-sentenced-to-55-years-in-prison-following-murder-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Tay-K Sentenced to 55 Years in Prison Following Murder Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Untitled-1w.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tay-k\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tay-k\" data-tag=\"tay-k\">Tay-K<\/a>, real name Taymor McIntyre, was sentenced to 55 years in prison and fined $10,000 by a Tarrant County jury for a 2016 home invasion and the subsequent murder of Ethan Walker, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article233008262.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/em><\/a>. McIntyre was also sentenced for three additional counts of aggravated robbery. He will concurrently serve a 30-year prison sentence for the first, and 13 years each for the remaining two counts from the same robbery. McIntyre potentially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tay-k-found-guilty-861346\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">faced five to 99 years in prison for each guilty count<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2016, McIntyre was part of a home invasion that left 21-year-old, Ethan Walker, dead and injured Zachary Beloate. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t part of the plan. The plan was robbery. Not killing,\u201d Jeff Kearney, one of McIntyre\u2019s defense attorneys told the jury, via Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In 2017, McIntyre went viral after releasing the video for \u201cThe Race.\u201d The song was based on the real life event of the young rapper cutting off his ankle bracelet and fleeing home arrest ahead of a court hearing. He was eventually apprehended by U.S. Marshals in New Jersey the same day the song\u2019s video was posted. \u201cI was tryna beat a case\/But I ain\u2019t beat that case, bitch, I did the race,\u201d he raps in one of the most infamous lines from the song, which peaked at number 44 on the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tay-k-sentenced-55-years-862561\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tay-K, real name Taymor McIntyre, was sentenced to 55 years in prison and fined $10,000 by a Tarrant County jury for a 2016 home invasion and the subsequent murder of Ethan Walker, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. McIntyre was also sentenced for three additional counts of aggravated robbery. He will concurrently serve a 30-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 01:44:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}