India, June 13 -- Silento, the rapper who made the world dance with Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae), has now been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the fatal shooting of his cousin. The artist, born Ricky Lamar Hawk, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to charges including voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, firearm possession during a felony, and concealing a death.

The 27-year-old was arrested in connection with the January 2021 killing of his cousin, Frederick Rooks III, 34, in Decatur, Georgia - a suburb just northeast of Atlanta. Police responding to reports of gunfire found Rooks bleeding from multiple bullet wounds in the middle of a residential neighborhood. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

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