Popular hip-hop podcaster Daryl Taxstone Campbell has been sentenced to 35 years for shooting and killing Ronald Banga McPhatter at Irving Plaza in 2014.
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Johnny Nunez/WireImageRapper and podcaster Taxstone was sentenced June 20 for the fatal shooting of rapper Troy Ave's bodyguard during a 2016 T.I. concert at Irving Plaza. Billboard reports he was sentenced to 35 years in prison on charges of manslaughter in the first degree, two counts of assault in the first degree, one count of assault in the second degree and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. According to prosecutors, Taxstone, born Daryl Campbell, had approached longstanding rival Troy Ave in the green room at Irving Plaza on May 25, 2016, before Troy's opening act for T.I. He allegedly shot Troy's bodyguard Ronald "Banga" McPhatter in the chest and Troy in his legs, seriously wounding another man and a woman in the process. Tax was arrested in January 2017 after prosecutors found his DNA on a firearm used in the shooting. He pleaded guilty to federal gun charges and was later taken into custody. In March,