#Tekashi 6ix9ine pal gets 4 1/2 years for Times Square shooting

A former Tekashi 6ix9ine pal was sentenced Tuesday to 4 1/2 years in prison in connection to a brazen Times Square shooting.

Kintea McKenzie, a recording artist who goes by the name Kooda B, was the last of a dozen defendants indicted alongside Tekashi for their roles in the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods criminal enterprise.

The gang was responsible for numerous shootings, robberies, assaults and narcotics trafficking in Manhattan and Brooklyn, according to federal prosecutors.

Tekashi, aka Daniel Hernandez, paid McKenzie cash in June 2018 to shoot at rapper and rival gang member Chief Keef as he exited a Times Square hotel.

McKenzie, who didn’t pull the trigger, pleaded guilty last year to organizing the shooting, which was intended to scare but not wound Chief Keef. The shots struck the hotel lobby ceiling above the target’s head.

McKenzie, 22, landed in hot water in October when he was caught on video partying with a group of people in his Brooklyn apartment after he was cut loose from jail due to the coronavirus. He was ordered back into custody over the stunt.