Florida prosecutors urged the state’s supreme court to decline an appeal by rapper YNW Melly over whether he might face the death penalty.
The 22-year-old YNW Melly (born Jamell Maurice Demons in small-town Gifford, Florida) stands accused of murdering his own best friends, rappers YNW Sakchaser and YNW Juvy in cold blood and will face the death penalty if he’s convicted. He and his accused accomplice, YNW Bortlen...
YNW Melly has been locked up since February of 2019, when he was arrested and charged with the 2018 murders of his friends Christopher "YNW Juvy" Thomas and Anthony "YNW Sakchaser" Williams. Melly went to trial for the murders last summer. However, thecase ended in a mistrial. He is c...
YNW Melly has been in jail since 2019, fighting first-degree murder charges in connection to the 2018 killings of his friends Chris "YNW Juvy" Thomas and Anthony "YNW Sakchaser" Williams. He is scheduled to beretriedafter his first caseended in a mistrialback in July. On Oct. 4, the ...
Melly, as well as YNW Bortlen, areaccused of murderingChristopher “Juvy” Thomas Jr. and Anthony “Sakchaser” Williams in 2018. The trial began last week, and streams for Melly's songs like "Murder On My Mind," "Suicidal," and more are through the roof. Judge Murphy III recently to...
Melly is accused of killing two fellow rappers, Christopher “Juvy” Thomas Jr and Anthony “Sakchaser” Williams, who were shot inside a Jeep driven by their friend, Cortland “YNW Bortlen” Henry. Prosecutors say he then tried to cover up his alleged crimes by trying to make it look li...
As previously reported, a mistrial was declared in the double-murder case ofYNW Melly, who is accused of murdering his friends YNW Juvy and YNW SakChaser in October of 2018.The decision came after the jury was unable to come to a unanimous verdict. ...
YNW Juvy. Prosecuters allege that Melly killed the two men and, along with YNW Bortlen, staged the scene to look like a drive-by. A 2018 official documentary asserts that Melly and Bortlen were would-be victims in the shooting, rather than its perpetrators. Melly has pleaded not guilty,...