JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville rapper Ksoo is currently in Duval County court seeking a new trial after being convicted of first-degree murder in July .

The rapper, whose real name is Hakeem Robinson, was convicted of murder in the January 2020 death of Charles McCormick.

Prosecutors said Robinson gunned down McCormick as he walked out of a temp agency on Merrill Road on Jan. 15, 2020.

The crime was motivated by the death of Robinson's stepbrother Willie Addison, who was shot while coming out of a club exactly a year before McCormick's murder. While Robinson and his co-defendant Leroy Whitaker are documented members of Jacksonville gang ATK, Addison was killed by a member of 6block, a rival gang. Prosecutors said McCormick was part of 6block.

Prosecutors said McCormick wrote a "di

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