LOS ANGELES — A Crips gang member was sentenced to at least 60 years in prison Wednesday for killing beloved rapper Nipsey Hussle outside his clothing store in 2019.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge H. Clay Jacke sentenced Eric Holder Jr. to 25 years to life in state prison for murdering Hussle and an additional 25 years to life based on a sentencing enhancement because he used a gun in the slaying. Holder must serve an additional 10 years in prison on assault convictions for shooting two other men who were with Hussle on the day of the killing, Jacke said.
Holder, 32, was on a date with a woman who would become his unwitting getaway driver on March 31, 2019, when he approached Hussle, in front of the Marathon Clothing store near Slauson Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles' Crenshaw neighborhood.
