Proof incident: time served
The man who authorities say killed the rapper Proof in lawful defense of another man has been sentenced to time served and a $2,000 fine for weapons violations.
A jury last month convicted Mario Etheridge of carrying a concealed weapon and discharging a firearm inside a building. The charges stem from the April fight at an after-hours club in Detroit in which Proof and another man, Keith Bender, were killed. Wayne County Circuit Judge Vera Massey Jones on Thursday sentenced Etheridge, 28, to time served for the concealed weapon charge and levied a $2,000 fine for firing the gun in a building.
Authorities say Etheridge shot and killed Proof, whose real name was Deshaun Holton, after Proof fatally shot Etheridge’s cousin, Bender. Proof, 32, was a member of the rap group D12 and was a close friend of rapper Eminem.
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