Article: 2 get maximum terms in slaying Fatal beating partly motivated by death of `gangsta' rapper Shakur

Two men who participated in a fatal beating that was at least partly motivated by the death earlier that day of "gangsta" rapper Tupac Shakur received maximum prison sentences Wednesday for their roles in the attack.

Charles I. Hudson, 20, and Terrance L. Johnson, 17, received prison terms of 15 and 10 years, respectively, for the Sept. 13 mob beating of Andre D. Arvin, 38.

After learning earlier that day that Shakur had died from gunshot wounds, Hudson punched out a window and was heard exclaiming, "I don't care if I go to jail," Circuit Judge David A. Hansher noted. Hudson, Johnson and others subsequently marched into a filling station and overturned a display of snacks. Later, Arvin ...

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