Man Who Rapped About Murder Guilty Of Slaying

[dvdjamm5150]

(10-16) 12:58 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A self-styled gangsta rapper who wrote lyrics about shooting people in the head was convicted of second-degree murder Friday in a slaying last year in San Francisco's Western Addition.

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Ronnie "Ron Ruger" Louvier, 24, of San Leandro, shook his head as the jury found him guilty of the murder and of a separate weapons allegation stemming from the March 20, 2008, killing of 17-year-old Marquise Washington.

Louvier faces a minimum term of 40 years to life in state prison when Superior Court Judge Donald Mitchell sentences him. No date has been sent.

Prosecutors argued that Louvier was a member of the 800 Block gang. He grew up in the Western Addition, they said, and drove around his old neighborhood before finding Washington on the 800 block of Turk Street and shooting him in the head. Washington was a member of a rival gang, they said.

Prosecutors noted that Louvier had written a rap song called "Murder S-," describing gunshots to the head and bloody clashes on the streets of San Francisco. They called it evidence of his gang membership and penchant for violence.

In "Murder S-," the singer describes using a Glock 9mm semiautomatic handgun at "close range" to shoot a victim, leaving him toe-tagged in the morgue and his "soul floating by a billboard."

To tie Louvier to Washington's killing, prosecutors presented evidence showing that the defendant had gunshot residue on his hands, hid the murder weapon - a Glock 9mm - in a secret compartment of his car and kept a box next to his bed filled with the same type of ammunition used in the shooting.

Louvier also was seen wiping his car clean after the killing, testimony showed.

Louvier, testifying in his own defense, said he had loaned his car to a friend that night and had taken BART to his aunt's house in San Leandro. He said he had spent the evening there watching television, playing video games and writing rap lyrics.

He could not explain the gunshot residue, the gun found in his car with his DNA on it, or the ammunition next to his bed.

Jurors interviewed after the verdict said they didn't believe Louvier's story. They were divided, however, on whether the killing was first- or second-degree murder and said they had rejected prosecutors' assertion that the killing was gang-motivated.

"We couldn't decide on motive," said juror Jennifer Allen.

She said "no one thought" Louvier's story about loaning his car to the actual killer held water.

"There were just too many holes" in Louvier's testimony, Allen said, "so many lies."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/16/BA7N1A6N30.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0U9HabHBX

 

[feenix89]

Thought it was gonna be about Syko Sam.

 

[jordanpheen]

Originally Posted by FeeNix89

Thought it was gonna be about Syko Sam.

same here
on another note glad to see another disturbed criminal locked away

 

[jbirdz23]

Originally Posted by FeeNix89

Thought it was gonna be about Syko Sam.

 

[mr monday niight]

son lived what he rapped

 

[mc otaku]

@ "Ron ruger" and "syko sam"

 

[tfromthe617]

damn... dude really said the exact gun and everything, he put himself in there.

lmao @ soul floating by the billboard

RIP to the kid though.

 

[JAYxSF415]

Originally Posted by FeeNix89

Thought it was gonna be about Syko Sam.

Me too.

 

[teemohtee]

Originally Posted by MR MONDAY NIIGHT

son lived what he rapped

word. now he can live what he rapped until he's hits 64.

 

[boomatic206]

Syko Sam > Ron Ruger

 

[dafreshstkid1987]

Wow he was smart

 

[Trey Bantz]

When keeping it real goes wrong...

 

[dathbgboy]

Originally Posted by trey ohh five

When keeping it real goes wrong...

Truth.

Dude really thought he was gon get away w/ it. U just gon be mad descriptive about a murder in a rap. Stupid