Former NBA Prospect Gets 90 Years to Life in Prison
A former NBA prospect and actor has been sentenced to 90 years to life after being found guilty of a string of sexual assaults.
Rashid Byrd, 39, was sentenced on Friday in connection with a number of sexual assaults between 2015 and 2020, a Los Angeles Police Department release said.
Byrd was investigated beginning in 2019 after a victim claimed she had been sexually assaulted, according to KTLA-TV.
“During their investigation, detectives learned in 2010, Byrd was convicted of sexual assault involving a different victim,” the LAPD said.
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“Detectives also discovered that Byrd had been arrested for sexually assaulting a young woman in Washington State in 2005,” the release said.
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