JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville rapper Ksoo, who was convicted of first-degree murder in July , was not granted a new trial in Duval County court Tuesday afternoon.

After hearing the rapper's attorneys' arguments for a new trial, Judge Tatiana Salvador set his sentencing for Sept. 19 at 10 a.m. Because first-degree murder is a capital felony in Florida, Ksoo will receive a life sentence.

On July 31, 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 m

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