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Siblings get 25 years for killing Venezuelan rapper Canserbero / Photo: Federico PARRA - AFP
Siblings get 25 years for killing Venezuelan rapper Canserbero
A brother and sister accused of killing Canserbero, a Venezuelan singer once named the best Spanish-language rapper by Rolling Stone, were sentenced to 25 years in prison, attorney general Tarek William Saab said Friday.
Tyrone Gonzalez, or Canserbero, as he was better known, died in 2015 at the age of 26 in a fall from the 10th floor of an apartment building in Maracay in Venezuela's north.
Investigators at the time ruled he had committed suicide after killing his friend Carlos Molnar in a fight.
But the case was reopened last year, and in December Saab showed reporters the video confessions of siblings Natalia and Guillermo Amestica.
In one of the videos, Natalia Amestica says she had drugged Canserbero and Molnar -- who was her husband -- then stabbed them.
Her brother then helped cover up the crime, staging a fight and throwing Canserbero's body from a window, according to the taped confession.
Saab said a dispute about money had led to the crime.
On Friday the court "proceeded to impose a 25-year prison sentence on both of them," he said on state television.
Their accomplices will also be charged, he added later on X, formerly Twitter.
The attorney general's office had also issued arrest warrants for several police officers who were at the scene, accusing them of taking money from the siblings to cover up the crime.
Warrants were also issued for a forensic pathologist and two investigators with the prosecutor's office who were involved in the investigation.
Canserbero's hits included "Mundo de Piedra" and "Es Epico." Rolling Stone lauded him as the best Spanish-language rapper in 2015, the year he was killed.
P.M.Martin--SMC
