Charged with “aggravated manslaughter and involuntary injury” after the death of one of his passengers in a road accident in mid-September, rapper Koba LaD was sentenced to prison in another case this Wednesday.
Rapper Koba LaD was sentenced this Wednesday, September 25, to two years in prison, one of which was suspended. The 24-year-old artist, in turmoil since the night of September 10 to 11, the day he was involved in a fatal road accident, was being tried by the Paris Criminal Court for a completely different case. In this case, he was accused of violence in a nightclub. Facts that date back to November 2022. The court ruled that the prison sentence could be arranged in the form of wearing an electronic bracelet. Absent from the hearing this Wednesday, Koba LaD was also banned from carrying a weapon for the next five years and is subject to a three-year ineligibility sentence, details franceinfo.
A few weeks ago, the dramatic road accident involving the rapper had cost the life of the front passenger, a certain William Dogbey, born in 1994, with whom Koba LaD collaborated. The rear passenger as well as the driver of the heavy goods vehicle hit by the luxury sports sedan driven by the singer had, themselves, been “slightly injured”, according to the prosecution. As revealed The Parisianthe 24-year-old rapper, who had been taken into custody on September 12 after his hospitalization, was charged with “aggravated involuntary manslaughter” and “aggravated involuntary injuries.” “Aggravated” because the singer was, it seems, under the influence of narcotics at the time of the facts of which he is accused. Koba LaD was also placed in pretrial detention, reports The Parisianof which The Figaro confirms the information.
What we know about the circumstances of the fatal accident
On the night of Tuesday 10 to Wednesday 11 September, the artist was taken care of by emergency services after hitting a heavy goods vehicle parked at the Total petrol station on the A86, in Créteil, in Val-de-Marne. The collision between the rapper’s sedan and the heavy goods vehicle caused the death of one of the passengers, and injured the third passenger as well as the driver of the truck.
On Thursday, September 12, the Créteil prosecutor’s office indicated that the artist, who “was indeed the driver” of the vehicle, was under the influence of drugs at the time of the incident. The accident allegedly occurred after one of the tires of the rapper’s car punctured, and he “went onto the road of a gas station” and hit the back of a heavy goods vehicle, according to the details of Free Midi. According to The Dauphiné Libéréthe rapper is said to have arrived “at full speed”. The investigation opened for “involuntary manslaughter by driver” and “involuntary injuries by driver” has been entrusted to the motorway CRS.
A previous road accident in 2020
This is not the first time that the rapper has been the author of a road accident. Koba LaD, whose real name is Marcel Junior Loutarila, was involved in a traffic accident in 2020 in Marseille, recalls The Dauphiné LibéréHe fled the scene but reported to police three days later. The artist was given a three-month suspended sentence, 140 hours of community service and a four-month driving ban.
Koba LaD says he is “devastated”
In a story published on his Instagram account, the rapper sent a message to William Dogbey’s family as well as to his fans: “I am devastated by the tragic loss of my friend Will and since Tuesday night I think first and foremost every second of his family, his wife and his children, with whom I share the immense sadness and mourning.” He added that he will be “there for his family until the end of [ses] days,” ending his message with: “Rest in peace my brother Will.”
In an interview granted to Parisian cOn September 24, William Dogbey’s father said he had no hatred toward the rapper. “There are two broken lives. William’s, who will not come back. And Koba’s. For him, it is up to the justice system to decide what is right. But I have no anger toward him,” confided Luc Dogbey, while his son’s funeral is scheduled to take place in the coming days. And he insisted: “I know it was an accident and that it was not intentional. He is 24 years old. What is happening to him is also dramatic for him.”