Serial Rapist, NBA G-Leaguer and actor Rashid Byrd sentenced to 90 years to life for his hobby of violently raping victims
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nba/article-13151491/NBA-Semi-Pro-actor-Rashid-Byrd-jailed-90-years-Ferrell.htmlFormer NBA prospect and 'Semi-Pro' actor Rashid Byrd is sentenced to 90 years in prison after being found guilty of 'a series of violent sexual assaults'
Ex-NBA prospect and 'Semi-Pro' actor Rashid Byrd has been sentenced to 90 years to life in prison after being found guilty of a series of sexual assaults dating back to 2015.
The 42-year-old, former basketball player, who had stints in the NBA's G-League with the LA Lakers' D-Fenders (now South Bay Lakers) and the Houston Rockets' Rio Grand Valley Vipers, was handed his sentence on Friday, four years on from his arrest.
The LAPD initially looked into Bryrd after receiving reports from one of his victims in 2019. He was arrested in September 2020 and held on a $4,150,000 bail.
In a statement released on Friday, the LAPD said its investigation uncovered 'a series of violent sexual assaults that occurred in Los Angeles and Santa Clara Counties between 2015 and 2020.'
In the past, Byrd, who went undrafted in the 2003 NBA Draft, was also found guilty of two other cases of sexual assault, one in 2010 concerning a different victim
Detectives also discovered that Byrd has been arrested for sexually assaulting a young woman in Washington State in 2005,' the LAPD's statement further disclosed.
Byrd - a seven-ft-one center - tried out acting while pursuing a pro basketball career and would charms his victims by applying drama skills he had learned, at the time, according to authorities.
'He started as a charmer, playing up his status as an athlete and pseudo-celebrity, but that quickly faded into rapes and violence,' LAPD Detective Dara Brown said.
