Trouble‘s accused killer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the late rapper’s death.
Fox 5 Atlanta reports that Jamichael Jones received the sentence on Thursday (March 20) as part of a plea deal – just one day before jury selection for the murder trial was set to begin.
Jones was facing murder and other charges, but pleaded guilty to one count of voluntary manslaughter. He has been behind bars since shortly after Trouble’s murder in 2022, and will receive credit for time served as part of his 20-year sentence.
Trouble was shot and killed in June of that year around 3 a.m. Jones was the former live-in boyfriend of the woman the rapper was with and he reportedly broke into her apartment and shot him in the chest.
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According to the paperwork, Jones reportedly woke the woman up by punching her in the face and a struggle between Jones and the Def Jam Recordings artist ensued. During the altercation, Jones allegedly pulled out a gun, shot Trouble once in the chest and fled the scene. Deputies discovered him laying on the floor when they arrived at the apartment and rushed him to a local hospital where he died.
The woman and Jones had been in a relationship for roughly three years, but she’d recently broke it off due to him being “jobless” and failing to pay his bills. After she dumped him, Jones allegedly punched her in the face and fled. Though she called police, she never finalized the report.
Jones turned himself in days later.
Boosie Badazz was close with the Atlanta rapper and later admitted he “cried for hours straight” when he learned of his passing.
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“That was my friend, bruh,” he said in a 2022 VLAD TV interview. “That’s who I go to the clubs with, who I talk to every other day. That was always a friend of me, Vlad. Always smile with him, he was different, this was a light skin Boosie. We made music together, but we just talked all night about real shit. That was my boy, like everybody know in Atlanta, that was my boy. That’s who I did everything with. We were raising all our girls to be friends. In Atlanta, that’s who I fucked with.”
He continued: “I cried for hours straight on the plane in my daughter’s lap, my six-year-old’s lap. It was so sad, bruh. I’m crying in my six-year-old’s lap. She kept saying, ‘What’s wrong daddy?’ And all I could think about in my head was him and his daughter. That’s all I could think about, him and his daughter, and me dying and my daughter hurting. That’s all I could think about, crying on my daughter.”
