Eric Holder has been convicted of first-degree murder in the 2019 shooting of Nipsey Hussle outside of his Marathon clothing store in Los Angeles. The jury spent under an hour deliberating after five hours of discussion last Friday. Holder's attorney acknowledged that his client Eric Ronald Holder, 32, shot and killed Nipsey Hussle, born Ermias Joseph Asghedom but asked jurors to consider a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter because the crime was committed in the heat of passion.

Attorney Aaron Jansen suggested that the shooting happened after a conversation between Holder and Asghedom, where Asghedom notified Holder that he was a rumored informant working with law enforcement.

"The heat of passion consisted of being called publicly a snitch by someone as famous as Nipsey Hussle," said Jenson. "This is a provocation that stirs up rage and powerful emotion."

Jansen attempted to paint Holder, who allegedly had connections to the same Rollin' 60's Los Angeles gang as Nipsey, `as a changed man, who was simply visiting the neighborhood which he hadn't been to for years to get a meal. "The two men had a conversation that intensified with an accusation," he said.

District attorney John McKinney painted Hussle as an internationally known recording artist with close ties to the community. "It really is a shame that his life was so coldly and brutally taken, on his own property, in his own neighborhood, by someone from his own gang," said McKinney.