Posted on 10/16/2009 7:31:11 PM PDT by smokingfrog
A self-styled gangsta rapper who wrote lyrics about shooting people in the head was convicted of second-degree murder Friday in a slaying last year in San Francisco's Western Addition.
Ronnie "Ron Ruger" Louvier, 24, of San Leandro, shook his head as the jury found him guilty of the murder and of a separate weapons allegation stemming from the March 20, 2008, killing of 17-year-old Marquise Washington.
Louvier faces a minimum term of 40 years to life in state prison when Superior Court Judge Donald Mitchell sentences him. No date has been sent.
Prosecutors argued that Louvier was a member of the 800 Block gang. He grew up in the Western Addition, they said, and drove around his old neighborhood before finding Washington on the 800 block of Turk Street and shooting him in the head. Washington was a member of a rival gang, they said.
Prosecutors noted that Louvier had written a rap song called "Murder S-," describing gunshots to the head and bloody clashes on the streets of San Francisco. They called it evidence of his gang membership and penchant for violence.
In "Murder S-," the singer describes using a Glock 9mm semiautomatic handgun at "close range" to shoot a victim, leaving him toe-tagged in the morgue and his "soul floating by a billboard."
To tie Louvier to Washington's killing, prosecutors presented evidence showing that the defendant had gunshot residue on his hands, hid the murder weapon - a Glock 9mm - in a secret compartment of his car and kept a box next to his bed filled with the same type of ammunition used in the shooting.
Louvier also was seen wiping his car clean after the killing, testimony showed.
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More trash bring swept away...Hmmm...Hmmm...Hmmm
Life imitates art.
But shee-oot, everybody and his aunt and uncle in the ‘hood writes murderous rap these days. That this was counted to mean anything is the bigger surprise.
On the other hand, he also swept away some trash... and even better.
Maybe he should get a medal upon release from prison!
Wonder if he’s now eligible to buy into an NFL team?/s
Don’t be rappin’ ‘bout how much you like cappin’.
Rappa gonna get rapeduh, wer be my mutha, my new name be Shaquila??
Guess you can’t accuse him of being a poser like so many other rappers who make money off of a thug persona.
Just think, if this thug had shot a police officer the Hollywood leftists would be screaming for his release.
Sick as hell, but true.
they couldn’t decide on the motive, so they went for second degree murder. some people are just silly.
Who says Western Civilization’s in decline?
/sarc
A rapper rapping about murder? Shootin homies in da hood? Wow, who’da thunk it? I’m loathe to belive such a thing. /sarcasm
A real story would be a rapper who didn’t rap about making the hood a worse place and tried to better his peers through music.
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