Nipsey Hussle's Killer Eric R. Holder Jr. Receives His Sentence

The man convicted of murdering Nipsey Hussle nearly four years ago has learned his fate.

On Wednesday, February 22, a judge in Los Angeles sentenced Eric R. Holder, Jr. to 60 years in prison. The sentence was passed down just months after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder. It also came after a judge previously denied Holder's request to reduce his conviction from first-degree murder to second-degree or manslaughter. His attorney Aaron Jansen filed the motion after he argued that the verdict was "inconsistent." Holder was facing 25 to life in prison and is not eligible for the death penalty.

Jansen previously argued that his client acted in the "heat of passion" when he fired 10-11 shots at Nipsey Hussle in front of The Marathon store off Slausen Ave. and Crenshaw Blvd. Nipsey was struck several times while two other men, Kerry Lathan and Shermi Villanueva, were also hit with non-life threatening injuries. Holder reportedly shot the Grammy-nominated rapper after he called him a "snitch" during a heated conversation outside the store. Holder then got into Bryannita Nicholson's car, drove around the block one and half times and got out with Bryannita a black semiautomatic and a silver revolver in his hands and opened fire.

Holder was arrested several days after the shooting and was formally charged over a month later. Following the end of his trial last year, Holder was convicted on first-degree murder plus two counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter, two counts of assault with a firearm, and possession of a firearm by a felon.