Just under four years after being sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for a crime he committed in 1993, former Bad Boy Records rapper G-Dep was temporarily released from prison last week to attend the funeral and burial services of his recently passed father.
In 2010, G-Dep, whose given name is Trevell Coleman, turned himself in for a robbery-turned-fatal-shooting that he committed in 1993. Years after the crime Coleman featured on Black Rob’s Life Story and then released his own debut in 2001. After pleading not guilty to the second-degree murder charge that stemmed from his confession, Dep’s lawyer said the rapper was trying “get things right between himself and God” and that the not guilty plea was a matter of procedure so that the court could investigate the confession which was possibly made under the influence of drugs, according to Billboard.
During his temporary release last week G-Dep reunited with his two sons and ex-wife Crystal Sutton. Sutton spoke with AllHipHop about the occasion, saying, “Dep has not seen his sons in a little over 4 years. Yes he calls regularly and he sees pictures of them growing, but being in their presence, the same room, next to each other is such a different feel.”
Sutton spoke further about the short visit G-Dep was granted with his children.
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“They finally had the chance to sit down with their father, shackled or not I could see that they were determined,” she said. “All that nervous energy seemed to melt away. They both showed him video after video of animations they had made. Visitors gained Trevell’s attention for a moment, but the boys made sure that their father stayed close. [Once] our time was up, Trevell had to go back. That one hour visit felt like 10 minutes. I could see the expression on the boys face change from happy to a worried look.”
