Bronx drill rapper Kay Flock, whose real name is Kevin Perez, was sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Perez was convicted of racketeering, attempted murder and more charges back in March. Prosecutors said he was the leader of the Sev Side\/DOA gang, based on East 187th Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Kevin Perez used violence and fame to fuel fear and intimidation across the Bronx,” U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton said. \u00a0“Perez and his gang members carried out a string of shootings that struck both rival gang members and innocent bystanders. \u00a0Perez also used his platform as a prominent rapper to celebrate his violence: threatening his rivals, bragging about his shootings, and taunting his victims.”<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said the gang’s activities, and Perez himself, “unleashed a series of back-and-forth retaliatory shootings that killed and injured far too many people in the Bronx.”<\/p>\n
The gang “primarily supported itself” through bank and wire fraud, prosecutors said, and that money then funded Perez’s music career as Kay Flock.<\/p>\n
In one instance, the gang was involved in a shooting in June, 2020 shooting that left several people injured, and within days Perez put out a music video bragging about it, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Perez “taunted, celebrated and created a culture of violence,” Judge Lewis Liman said at sentencing, adding the harm Perez caused “was immense.”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bronx drill rapper Kay Flock, whose real name is Kevin Perez, was sentenced to 30 years in prison…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-73220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}