Aspiring Rapper Sentenced To 6 Years Following Fatal Stabbing
Posted June 17, 2008 12:00 pm.
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An aspiring rapper will be singing the blues for the next 6 years behind bars after a judge’s sentence Tuesday.
Twenty-seven-year-old Clinton Gordon, who was known in music circles as Mikey G, was convicted of manslaughter in the stabbing death of 24-year-old Mohamed Hussein in November 2005. On Tuesday, he faced sentencing and was given an additional six years on top of time served for the killing.
Hussein, a father of two, was remembered fondly by his sister.
“I can’t take the pain of my mother losing a son, of my brother losing another brother, of his kids losing a father. I don’t have control over their emotions to take their hurt away. So to see your family suffering around you is worse than you dealing with your own suffering,” said Ommiya Hussein.
Hussein was stabbed a total of nine times after initiating a fight with Gordon, who was dating his estranged wife, Kim Davis.
On the fateful day of his death, Hussein noticed that mother of his two children had tattooed Gordon’s stage name on her neck and became enraged. Not long after, Gordon arrived and the two began fighting.
At one point Hussein retrieved a baseball bat, and Gordon pulled out a knife, fatally stabbing him.
Justice John McMahon said that Hussein, “was partial author of his own misfortune” for not driving away and instead confronting Gordon.
