CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Three Venezuelan police officers, a businessman, and a forensic expert were on Tuesday sentenced to prison terms of between 15 and 20 years for complicity in the 2015 murder of rapper Canserbero.

Tyrone Gonzalez, or Canserbero as he was better known, died in 2015 at the age of 26 in a fall from the 10th floor of an apartment building in northern Venezuela.

The five people sentenced on Tuesday were convicted of criminal conspiracy, conspiracy to murder, and obstructing the course of justice for helping cover up the killing.

In the year of his death, Rolling Stone magazine named him the best rapper in the Spanish language.

Investigators initially ruled Canserbero had committed suicide after killing his friend Carlos Molnar in a knife fight.

But in a dramatic about-turn in December 2023, the rapper’s former manager, Natalia Amestica, and her brother, Guillermo, confessed to killing him.

Amestica said she drugged and stabbed him, and that she and her brother then threw him out of the window.

The siblings were sentenced to 25 years in prison in February.

Among those sentenced Tuesday was Venezuelan music industry impresario Marcos Pratolongo.