Hakeem Robinson, 26, a Jacksonville rapper known as Ksoo, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the January 15, 2020, daytime shooting death of 23-year-old Charles Lil Buck McCormick Jr. Prosecutors said Robinson, his cousin Leroy Whitaker Jr., and an accomplice, Dominique Butta Barner, stalked McCormick in a shopping plaza and Robinson fired the fatal shots. The state presented surveillance and dashcam footage, social media posts allegedly boasting about the killing, and testimony from Barner, who pleaded guilty to a separate charge in exchange for cooperating and identified Robinson as the shooter.

A dramatic moment in the trial came when Robinson’s father, Abdul Robinson Sr., testified and identified his son in the video; he was also implicated in helping suspects flee. The defense argued the shooter in the footage was much shorter than Robinson and questioned witness descriptions and family testimony. A jury found Robinson guilty of first-degree murder after about three and a half hours of deliberation, and he received a mandatory life sentence without parole. Leroy Whitaker Jr. was also convicted and given life.

Robinson still faces a separate murder trial in the 2019 shooting death of 16-year-old Adrian Lil Bibby Gainer Jr. Does anyone have information about the events in the plaza or the people involved that could shed light on what happened that day?