Drill rapper Kay Flock couldn’t have headed the ruthless crew that terrorized the Bronx with rampant gun violence as a result of he has an “mental incapacity,” his attorneys argued — because the convicted gangster confronted a long time behind bars Tuesday.
Attorneys for the 22-year-old “PSA” hitmaker, whose actual title is Kevin Perez, made the head-scratching declare as they lobbied a Manhattan federal choose for leniency at his sentencing, court docket data present.
The jailed musician argued that the prosecution’s star witness, a fellow member of the Sev Facet / DOA crew, “managed” Flock resulting from his purported incapacity.
However the feds blasted the argument as Flock’s “clear try and deflect accountability in any means he can.”
“He was the one main the cost on the road — not the opposite means round,” Southern District of New York prosecutors wrote in a Friday court docket submitting.
The feds have requested Decide Lewis Liman to condemn Flock to 50 years in jail for his position in a gang-fueled Bronx taking pictures spree between 2020 and 2022, and an higher Manhattan burst of gun violence that resulted within the homicide of 24-year-old Hwascar Hernandez.
“Over the course of lower than 18 months, [Flock] and his fellow gang members engaged in a marketing campaign of violence, deepening current gang rivalries and instigating new feuds the place none had beforehand existed,” prosecutors wrote to the court docket.
“Dozens of individuals had been shot at, injured, and even killed throughout this brief time frame, because of the elevated gang violence whipped up, largely, by [Flock].”
A jury convicted Flock in March of racketeering conspiracy and numerous severe weapons and assault costs.
However Flock was acquitted of a homicide rap after his attorneys argued the Dec. 16, 2021, taking pictures of Hernandez outdoors a Hamilton Heights barbershop was performed in self-defense.
The embattled rapper celebrated the decision, boasting in an Instagram put up that “I beat the highest depend,” and claiming, “I made the choose cry. He stated now he not power to provide me life.”
“By no means fold, by no means will,” he continued.
Flock additionally wrote on Instagram, in all-caps, “KILL ALL RATS” — which prosecutors referred to as “an unmistakable shot” because the feds’ witness who testified towards him.
“The info reveal that the defendant has not meaningfully modified,” prosecutors wrote to the choose.
Flock’s attorneys didn’t reply Tuesday to a request for remark.
They submitted a letter to the choose with their very own sentencing suggestion, nevertheless it was beneath seal and unavailable to the general public.
