A person needed in reference to the slaying of rapper PnB Rock, who was gunned down final month at Roscoe’s Home of Rooster & Waffles in South L.A., has been extradited to Los Angeles after his preliminary arrest in Las Vegas.
Freddie Lee Trone, 40, was booked into L.A. County jail at 3:16 p.m. Tuesday on suspicion of homicide, information present. He’s being held on bail of $3 million. An arraignment date was not accessible Tuesday night time.
Trone was arrested Sept. 29 in Las Vegas, based on Officer Tony Im, a Los Angeles Police Division spokesperson.
The extradition comes three weeks after Shauntel Trone, 38, and a 17-year-old boy had been arrested in L.A. County in reference to Rock’s killing.
Freddie Lee Trone and {the teenager}, who was not recognized due to his age, have been charged with homicide, theft and conspiracy to commit theft. Shauntel Trone is charged with theft and being an adjunct after the very fact.
Freddie Lee and Shauntel Trone are married, mentioned Greg Risling, a spokesman for the L.A. County district legal professional’s workplace, after her arrest.
{The teenager} is Freddie Lee Trone’s son, based on regulation enforcement sources who spoke to The Instances on the situation of anonymity as a result of they weren’t licensed to debate the investigation with the media. The teenager and Shauntel Trone are usually not associated, Risling mentioned.
Rock, 30, whose actual identify was Rakim Allen, had been on the Roscoe’s Home of Rooster & Waffles on Manchester Avenue along with his girlfriend, Stephanie Sibounheuang, on Sept. 12 when the assailants walked as much as their desk and demanded jewellery and different valuables. The jewellery was valued at “a number of a whole lot of hundreds of {dollars},” based on the legal grievance.
Whereas some expressed concern that Rock might have been focused after his girlfriend posted an image to Instagram exhibiting that they had been on the restaurant, regulation enforcement sources have advised The Instances that Freddie Lee Trone and his son had been on the Roscoe’s parking zone earlier than any social media posts associated to the rapper’s presence had been printed.
The teenager approached Rock with a masks on, pointed a gun at him and shouted, “Give me your whole jewellery now,” based on the grievance. Prosecutors allege he shot the rapper as soon as within the chest whereas he sat a desk, then twice extra within the again.
Seconds later, the teenager allegedly threatened to shoot Sibounheuang within the head and took a number of items of jewellery off Rock’s physique.
The killing sparked outrage amongst followers, in addition to neighborhood activists, who say violence at a well-liked eatery is unacceptable.
