Man Pleads Guilty In Killing of ATL Rapper Trouble
The man accused of killing ATL rapper Trouble will serve 20 years in prison after accepting a plea deal.
As reported by 11Alive, Jamichael Jones received the sentence in Rockdale County after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter on Friday (March 21). Jones’ plea effectively avoids a trial slated to start Monday.
Jones was facing charges of home invasion, felony murder, and aggravated assault in connection to the shooting.
Trouble was found shot on June 5, 2022, after Rockdale County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a call at the Lake St. James Apartments. The rapper, real name Mariel Semonte Orr, later succumbed to his injuries at a local hospital.
Jones agreed to surrender two days after the shooting outside a hospital in Clayton County.
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According to the arrest warrant obtained by 11Alive, deputies in the Rockdale Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call from Jones’ ex-girlfriend and arrived to find her with “visible injuries on her face consistent with being struck.”
She told the deputies that she was asleep in her bed with Trouble and “woke up to her ex-boyfriend, Mr. Jamichael Jones, punching her in the face.”
Jones and Trouble then began fighting, according to the warrant, and she tried to help the rapper when Jones “pulled out a handgun and shot Mr. Orr (Trouble) and left the scene.” The rapper was shot in the chest, the warrant stated. Deputies noted in the warrant that the apartment’s front door had been forced open and that they had surveillance footage of Jones arriving and leaving the apartment complex in his car. According to the timeline in the warrant, Jones came and went in just seven minutes.
Man Pleads Guilty In Killing of ATL Rapper Trouble was originally published on hotspotatl.com
