Girl Who Unwittingly Chauffeured Nipsey Hussle Killer Testifies

The trial for Eric Holder Jr. continued on Monday with testimonies from key witnesses on the scene the place Nipsey Hussle was violently executed three years in the past. In response to Rolling Stone, the primary to testify was one of many two males injured when Nipsey Hussle was shot a number of instances in a South Central, Los Angeles car parking zone. The witness recalled that he probably heard the rapper’s phrases.

“He shot me. He shot me,” Hussle stated as he lay bleeding on the bottom outdoors his Marathon clothes retailer after the shooter fled the scene, witness Shermi Villanueva, 47, recalled to the courtroom. Villanueva and his uncle, Kerry Lathan, had been speaking to Hussle whereas standing between two parked automobiles moments earlier than the suspect allegedly walked up and began firing.

Villaneuva recalled listening to a number of pictures earlier than seeing Nipsey fall to the bottom.

“I heard it, after which I noticed Nipsey fall. Once I regarded and see Nipsey, I began to run.”

Villanueva additionally testified that he had by no means heard the shooter converse earlier than he opened fireplace. There had been no sense anybody was in peril main as much as the lethal assault, he testified.

Getaway Driver Stated Eric Holder Wished To Slap Her

Bryannita Nicholson, who posed for a photograph with the rapper earlier than he was killed, testified that she acted as Eric Holder’s getaway driver unwittingly throughout the homicide trial for Nipsey Hussle. Nicholson, a 35-year-old dwelling healthcare aide, reportedly met Holder whereas working as a Lyft driver. She described their bond as an informal relationship relationship with no strings connected. On the day of Hussle’s demise, Holder directed her to The Marathon retailer’s car parking zone, the place he engaged with the Grammy winner in a dialog about “snitching.”

“Did you say I snitched?” Holder requested Hussle; she testified to jurors. She stated Holder was loud however not aggressive.

“It didn’t sound like he was mad.”

Nicholson stated Hussle posed for a photograph along with her, and some time later, she and Holder drove across the block. Holder began loading bullets right into a black semiautomatic gun whereas seated in her automotive. She testified asking him to place the gun away, and he complied. Subsequent, Holder jumped out of the automotive and instructed her to not depart till he returned moments after, she testified. She stated she noticed Holder flip a nook again towards Hussle’s retailer after which heard a number of gunshots. Holder then reappeared and demanded she drives with a “stern” voice.

“I used to be like, ‘What occurred?’ He was like, ‘Drive!’ [He said] I discuss an excessive amount of. He was like he was going to slap me,” she testified.

Nicholson drove Holder again to Lengthy Seaside and testified she didn’t hear that Hussle had been killed till later that night time. Holder, 32, has pleaded not responsible to 1 rely of pre-meditated homicide for the slaying of Hussle and two counts of first-degree tried homicide for the accidents to Villanueva and Lathan.