Marion “Suge” Knight, a businessman from Compton, was sentenced to 28 years in prison on Thursday for the killing of a fellow businessman in the music industry, which marked the completion of his downfall from his heyday as one of the most feared and prominent names in the Los Angeles music scene.

In a California correctional facility, Knight will probably spend the majority, if not the entirety, of his remaining years. While the family members of Terry Carter, the individual he murdered, portrayed their beloved as a committed family man and mediator, he displayed no signs of emotion during Thursday’s court proceedings.

Escaping and dashing past Carter, Knight swiftly raced through the parking area before causing significant harm to Sloan by grazing him with his pickup truck. Sloan was engaged as an advisor on a film about N.W.A., “Straight Outta Compton,” where Knight was displeased with how he was depicted. Knight and one of his enduring adversaries, Cle “Bone” Sloan, engaged in a physical altercation outside a burger stand in Compton in January 2015, resulting in Carter’s death.

Sentence 1: Many had no positive words for the Death Row Records co-founder, whom they condemned for displaying a total absence of regret. Sentence 2: Carter’s family expressed their hope that Knight’s extensive imprisonment would bring them solace.

Crystal, Carter’s daughter, described Knight as a “despicable hoodlum,” “career felon,” and “a disgraceful, egocentric disgrace to humanity.

She told a judge, “28 years of maximum the to society menace callous cold remorseless unrepentant this sentence you that ask I.”

The sentencing of Knight, 53, marked the end of a nearly four-year court saga, which included frequent outbursts by Knight and his defense team shuffling. Before Thursday’s hearing, Knight had already agreed to a lengthy prison term by pleading no contest to charges of murder, attempted murder, and voluntary manslaughter, thereby avoiding trial. Additionally, he collapsed in court during one of his appearances.

Knight has already served time and is likely to spend roughly 20 years on parole before being eligible for release from prison, due to the restrictions imposed by the three-strikes law.

In the mid-1990s, Dr. Dre, Tupac Shakur, and Snoop Dogg were wildly popular and considered classics. Knight has experienced a decline for decades.

Shakur was in Knight’s vehicle when he was assassinated in a drive-by assault in Las Vegas in 1996.

He eventually lost his ownership in Death Row Records as a result of bankruptcy proceedings.

Almost twenty of Carter’s family members filled the courtroom on Thursday.

Nekaya Carter, Carter’s daughter, conveyed her wish for the resolution of the legal ordeal to provide her with a feeling of peace.

She expressed, “I desired fairness for my father and now we have ultimately acquired it, to some extent.” Disregarding the judge’s orders not to, she subsequently spoke directly to Knight. “As you spend the remainder of your life incarcerated, my father can finally find solace.”

“He was far beyond the individual whom the accused caused the demise of using his vehicle,” conveyed Jessica Carter, his sibling, to Ronald Coen, the Los Angeles Superior Court.

Frequently serving as a mediator and reconciler within the community, Carter’s family stated that he had been present at the location, although there have been conflicting reports regarding the reasons behind it.

“This wasn’t any cat who went after nobody,” Carter’s brother-in-law Damu Visha said in court. “He assisted people.”

The media has repeatedly been criticized for repeatedly showing it so often, and family members have repeatedly described their anguish in having to repeatedly see the death captured on video surveillance.

Coen seemed touched by the family’s words and extended his own sympathies.

“If nobody else has mentioned it,” Coen said, “allow me to express my sympathy, that I feel deeply for you.”

The majority of the family members of the victims expressed the importance of forgiving Knight for their personal tranquility.

“I have faith and I plead that we discover forgiveness,” Patricia Hawkins, Terry Carter’s cousin, expressed. “However, it will not happen today.”