Jacksonville rapper Hakeem “Ksoo” Robinson and his cousin Leroy Whitaker Jr. will be sentenced Wednesday for the 2020 first-degree murder of 23-year-old Charles “Lil Buck” McCormick Jr.
The sentencing is expected to begin at 1:30 p.m. and it will be streamed here.
Robinson’s brother, Abdul Robinson Jr., is also charged in McCormick’s murder and will be tried separately.
Trial recap
The high-profile murder case drew national attention amid deep tensions in Jacksonville’s rap and gang communities.
According to testimony from their father, both Robinson brothers were members of the group ATK and were enemies with a rival group, 6Block, of which McCormick was a member.
According to prosecutors, the motive for McCormick’s murder involved a “diss” track McCormick had created about Abdul Ro