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PnB Rock Murder: Dad of Alleged Shooter Gets 31 Years to Life in Prison

The man convicted of sending his 17-year-old son into a restaurant for an armed robbery that killed rapper PnB Rock was sentenced to 31 years to life

The jurors deliberated less than four hours before unanimously deciding that Trone planned the brazen robbery of the rapper, whose legal name was Rakim Allen, at Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles and acted as his son’s getaway driver after the deadly shooting that took place on September 12, 2022. During the trial, jurors heard that the alleged teen shooter, charged separately in juvenile court, stalked into the restaurant wearing a ski mask and a “Fruity Pebbles” T-shirt and then opened fire on Allen and his fiancée Stephanie Sibounheuang only seconds after shouting, “If you don’t give me the jewelry, I’m going to blow her head off.” Trone’s defense lawyer, Winston McKesson, had argued during the trial that the dad was at the Roscoe’s minutes before the shooting not to plan the robbery, as prosecutors alleged, but to “drum up” business for his beauty supply shop and buy marijuana from Jones.

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