The third suspect in the shooting death of an aspiring rapper learned his sentence Monday.
Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Jaiza Page ordered 25-year-old Kyson Murphy to serve a sentence of 12 to 16½ years in prison.
Murphy, 25, had pleaded guilty in August 2021 to involuntary manslaughter and robbery in connection with the May 20, 2021, robbery and fatal shooting of 26-year-old Courtney Bruce, who went by the moniker “Boog the Bandit.”
Two other men, Sincere McIntyre, and Jumada Williams, pleaded guilty and were sentenced in July .
McIntyre, 20, received a sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole after 18 years. Williams, 22, received a sentence of 20 to 25½ years in prison.
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On the day of the shooting, Bruce and a 25-year-old man had gone to the 3700 block of Dort Place, on the city’s East Side, to meet a person for what they thought might be a drug deal and a rap video production, Franklin County Assistant Prosecutor Leigh Bayer said.