Aspiring rapper Mike Dough-aka-Michael Young is going to prison for the next 27-years after pleading guilty to shooting his cousin in the head inside Verret's Bar in 2016.
Michael Young averted a scheduled murder trial by pleading guilty to an amended charge of manslaughter in connection to the death of 42-year-old Greg Young on Jan. 31, 2016. The victim was shot inside Verret's Lounge on Baronne and Washington. Young died in a hospital four days later.
He also pled guilty to obstruction of justice, aggravated assault with a firearm and two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charges included offenses committed the day before the killing, when the defendant threatened another man with a gun in the 500 block of Austerlitz Street around 3:25 a.m.
After hearing an impact statement from the victim's wife, Judge Darryl Derbigny imposed a 20-year prison term for the manslaughter, followed by a 7-year sentence for obstruction that he ordered to be served consecutively. The 10-year sentences for the other convictions will be served concurrent to the manslaughter term.
Michael Young, as Mike Dough, was featured on the local Kowboii Records label.