‘I Had Nothing to Do With It’ Says Man Charged With Sending Son to Kill Rapper PnB Rock

‘I Had Nothing to Do With It’ Says Man Charged With Sending Son to Kill Rapper PnB Rock
Philadelphia rapper PnB Rock performs at the 2018 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Del., on June 16, 2018. Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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COMPTON, Calif.—A man charged with murder vehemently denied in court testimony that he sent his 17-year-old son into a Los Angeles restaurant in 2022 to rob and kill hip-hop star PnB Rock.

“I understand you’re trying to put together your story,” Freddie Trone told a prosecutor during cross-examination in a Compton, California, courtroom at his trial Monday before closing arguments began. “I never had nothing to do with it. I wasn’t there. I didn’t tell nobody to do nothing. I didn’t hand nobody no gun.”