Teen rapper Tay-K sentenced to 55 years in prison for deadly home invasion

Texas rapper Tay-K has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for murder.

The 19-year-old, whose legal name is Taymor McIntyre, was charged
in the 2016 death of 21-year-old Ethan Walker, who was shot and killed
in his own Mansfield, Texas, home during a robbery. 

McIntyre was also sentenced to 30 years in prison for one count of
aggravated robbery and 13 years each for two other counts of aggravated
robbery, in addition to $21,000 in fines Tuesday, according to the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney's Office. 

The sentences will run concurrently. 

McIntyre was found guilty Friday after prosecutors said he
organized the home invasion and recruited the man who shot and
killed Walker. (The trigger man was sentenced last year to life in
prison.)  

McIntyre rose to fame with his 2017 single "The Race,"
recorded while he was a fugitive, which appeared on Billboard's Hot
100. In the song, McIntyre raps about running from the police.

The
song's music video, which features the rapper posing next to his own
wanted poster, has more than 174 million views on YouTube. 

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