By Blessing Udeobasi
American Rap icon, Nathaniel Glover better known as Kidd Creole, has been sentenced to 16-years imprisonment for stabbing a 55-year-old homeless man to death during a dispute in Manhattan.
Police arrested Creole in his hometown, Bronx after security camera video recorded him stabbing the man and therefore charged him with second-degree murder.
Tourists found the man identified as John Jolly wounded on East 44th Street near 3rd Avenue just before midnight on an August 2017 night.
According to New York Police Department, Jolly was stabbed multiple times in the chest with a steak knife, and was brought by medics to Bellevue where he was pronounced dead.
Prosecutors accused Kidd Creole of stabbing the other man after becoming enraged because he thought Jolly was gay and hitting on him. Creole’s attorney had argued that the stabbing was in self-defence.
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Prosecutor Mark Dahl, who asked that 61-old Glover be sentenced to 18 years in prison, said “The defendant had committed a senseless and unwarranted act of violence that took the life of one of the city’s most vulnerable populations — the homeless.”
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr said in a statement; “Mr. Jolly’s death was devastating to his family and those who knew him. Every life we lose to violent crime ripples throughout our entire city, and we will continue to ensure everyone in our borough can live their lives with the sense of safety and security they deserve.”
During the sentencing hearing, Glover claimed he’d been wrongly cast as a killer. He said;
“I’m very disappointed in the way that that this whole situation played out. I’ve been portrayed as a callous and senseless [killer]… which is far from the person who I am.
“I’ve been slandered and all this made me seem as if I am a person who actually has no remorse and no repentance.”
Glover added he was “disappointed” in the way the proceedings progressed, adding, “I also feel that at a certain point the truth of all of this will be revealed and I will be exonerated.” he said.
