Tay-K shocked the world in 2017
when he dropped The Race while on the run for a murder charge.
But most fans don’t know that Tay-K was part of a group
and his homies were just as savage as him.
This is the wild story of the Daytona Boyz.
Back in 2014, Tay-K and his homies
Pimpyz and Santana Sage started a rap group called the Daytona boys.
They dropped their first track on Christmas Day, 2014,
but it took a while before they built a buzz with their music.
Besides performing at parties and dropping tracks on SoundCloud,
they wasn’t really making any waves.
Then in August 2015 Tay-K dropped a solo track called BIFF XANNEN,
he followed that up a month later with Sly Cooper
and started gaining some attention in the local scene.
So with Tay starting to pop off,
the Daytona Boyz were able to play some more official shows.
But just when they were starting to see a bit of success,
Santana Sage murdered an innocent college student after a show in Denton, Texas.
Tay-K, Santana, and Pimpyz
all performed at a New Year’s Eve house party that night and left around 2:00 AM,
As they were leaving, Santana pulled up next to a car
driven by 20-year-old Sara Mutschlechner.
Sara and her friends had just left the same party,
so the dudes in Santana’s SUV rolled down the windows
and started yelling about how they “wanted to **** the two girls in the car.”
A dude who was in the car with Sara told Santana and his homies
that they was out of pocket,
then one of them told him they’d “beat his ass,”
and another said “I’ll shoot your ass”
and pulled out a pistol.
Sara tried to drive away,
but Santana started letting off shots and hit her in the head.
She crashed into an electric pole and was taken to the hospital,
but she tragically died later on New Year’s Day.
The police traced the shooting back to Santana through a Twitter post
that showed him next to the whip he was driving that night.
He was 20-years-old at the time and was in the marines for three years.
His real name is Eric Johnson, and a neighbor of his family told the Daily Mail
“I’m just shaking with this news. I’m very surprised.
He was a very nice boy from a very nice family.”
Santana seemed like he had it all together -
but in reality he murdered an innocent woman for no reason.
Sara’s dad called her death “senseless and tragic,”
and said “We’re all going to miss her.
Some people don’t get to have their kids 20 years.
We have to be blessed with what we’ve had with our time spent.”
Sara was an organ donor who also volunteered at the American Cancer Society.
And after her death,
her parents revealed that her organs were used to save the life of a burn victim.
Santana ended up being sentenced to 44 years for Sara’s death.
Tay-K and Pimpyz were both in the SUV with him when it went down,
but they weren’t hit with any charges.
But, just a few months later,
Tay-K and Pimpyz were involved in the deadly robbery that led to The Race.
If you don’t know what went down that night,
here’s a quick recap.
On July 25th, 2016, Megan Holt,
Ariana Bharrat, and another woman all went to Zachary Beloate and Ethan Walker’s place to smoke.
When they got there, they unlocked the door and texted Tay-K, Pimpyz, Sean Robinson,
and Latharian Merritt to come “hit a lick.”
Pimpyz, Tay-K and other dudes all went in and robbed the place.
Beloate got shot during the robbery but was able to get away.
Then his friend Ethan was shot and killed while he was sitting on the ground.
According to a witness, Tay-K was mad they “popped someone
and only got a little cash and a watch.” and placed under house arrest.
Then in March 2017,
Tay-K hopped on Twitter and wrote “**** dis house arrest ****
**** 12 they gn hav 2 catch me on hood.”
Then he and Pimpyz cut their ankle monitors off and the race was officially on.
Pimpyz and Tay-K weren’t together the whole time they were on the run,
but both of them were allegedly involved in another murder outside a Chick-fil-A
in San Antonio.
According to the police, Tay-K, Pimpyz, and another dude
lured 23-year-old Mark Anthony Saldivar
into an SUV so they could steal his photography equipment.
Saldivar got out of the vehicle and started yelling for help,
then Tay-K allegedly tried to run him over.
That’s when Salldivar hopped on the hood and started kicking the windshield.
So Tay-K allegedly hopped out and shot him once before driving away.
Tay-K was later hit with capital murder charges for allegedly killing Saldivar,
but he’s still waiting for his trial to start.
It hasn’t been confirmed yet,
but a Reddit user posted a screenshot that seems to show Pimpyz
has already been sentenced for Saldivar’s murder.
Pimpyz ended up getting caught before Tay-K,
which inspired the bar “Pimp gon’ be eatin’ good noodles every day.”
Pimpyz also backed up Tay-K during his beef with YBN Nahmir,
even though they were both locked up at the time.
The beef started after Nahmir broke out with his track Rubbin Off Da Paint.
On the song he says “Free Lil Tay, know he keep a K, but he not Tay-K
I up the chop and let it blow him, watch this ***** heat his face.”
Tay-K took the line as a shot at him, and during a recorded jail call he said
“No, n**** that been tryna be like me bro.
Bro that **** lame.
That n**** tryna get clout off my name.
I’ma keep this shit like low key, but when I see him and he try to dap me up,
then I’ma beat his ass.”
Pimpyz also threatened to beat Nahmir up when he gets released,
but Nahmir said there wasn’t no beef.
In an interview with Say Cheese TV he said “It’s no beef with Tay-K bruh.
See that's, I was waiting for you to answer that ****
***** Free Tay–K on my momma. I was waiting for you to ask that ****.
You feel me.
Like it's no beef with that ***** like,
My big brother - his name Tay, you feel me. He was locked up and shit.
The second line was like, ‘I up the chop and let it blow him,
watch this **** heat his face,’
and they probably thought I was talking about Tay-K. But no, that’s for anybody.”
But then Nahmir posted a video of a concert where his fans were chanting “**** Tay-K.”
**** Tay-K, **** Tay-K, **** Tay-K
He captioned it with “I don’t got any type of beef with him before people get that mindset.
The crowd did that **** on they own.
I never knew him in person or anything.
I still **** wit lil cuz music.”
Before ****** get anything ******, I did not tell no ***** in the crowd to do that ****
period.
They did that **** on they own.
After he posted the video, fans thought he really had beef with Tay-K,
but Nahmir hopped on Instagram Live and cleared the air.
He told his fans
“I want y'all to look me in my eyes.
**** all that beef **** mother****** got going on.
**** all them weak ass diss songs.
We getting paid *****.
**** all that extra ****.”
Pimpyz was originally offered a 20 year sentence to snitch on Tay-K,
but he refused to cooperate with the police
and ended up taking a plea deal in exchange for a 30 year sentence instead.
But, Pimpyz wasn’t the only one who was offered a deal for snitching on Tay-K.
Ariana Bharrat agreed to testify against Sean Robinson, Pimpyz, and Tay-K
to get her capital murder charge dropped.
She was still handed down a 25 year sentence for aggravated robbery,
but she avoided a potential life sentence by snitching.
Megan Holt also agreed to testify to have her charge dropped,
but she still got hit with a 20 year sentence.
Sean Robinson ended up pleading guilty to murder in exchange for 40 years in prison.
When the news broke, Ethan Walker's father said
“It’s one more down and a couple to still go.
This was just about wasted lives.
The wasted lives of everyone involved.
Robinson will still be here when his time is served, but Ethan won’t.”
Even while locked up, Tay-K still couldn’t stay out of trouble.
He got caught with a cell phone in jail,
and the Chief of Staff at the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office reported
“They asked him to remove it.
That’s when he attempted to throw it into the toilet to destroy the phone.
When they tried to take the phone away from him, he got a little angry
and got into an altercation with one of our jailers.”
Tay-K got sent to solitary confinement after this incident
and spent 23 hours a day in a cell by himself.
Tay-K was eventually sentenced to 55 years in 2019.
He got hit with 55 years for murder, 30 years for aggravated robbery,
and two 13 year sentences for his other robbery charges.
All of the sentences will run at the same time,
so he won’t do more than 55 years.
He’ll be up for parole after serving 27 and a half years,
but his team thinks he’ll be out before then.
In 2020, rumors started flying that Tay-K stabbed a prison guard
and had time added to his sentence.
His legal team denied the story and tweeted
‘ALL RUMORS OF TAYMOR’S SENTENCING BEING EXTENDED ARE FALSE.
TAY HAS STAYED OUT OF TROUBLE
AND THE MEDIA IS STILL FIGHTING AGAINST HIM TO PAINT AN UNTRUE NARRATIVE.
APPEALS ARE STILL CONTINUING AND TAY WILL BE HOME SOON
#FREETAYK.”
But apparently Tay ain’t happy with his lawyers.
In December 2021 he tweeted
“I need a new appeal lawyer.”
Even if he does appeal the Ethan Walker case,
he’s still facing the death penalty for allegedly killing Mark.
Tay is blaming the media, his management, and legal team for the situation.
In 2019 he said “I wanna apologize to all my fans and supporters
for letting my management and label convince me
that it wouldn’t be a good decision to speak out against the way the media makes me look
and the complete lies they spread.
But I’m gonna make sure the truth about my life and my character gets out
with or without management or a label.
And whoever don’t like it **** you.”
Santana and Pimpyz have both been pretty quiet since they got locked up.
It seems like they were more realistic about their chances of getting out than Tay-K.
He had two co-defendants testify against him in court,
but somehow he still thinks he’ll beat the case.
The Daytona Boyz had the opportunity to blow up with their music,
but instead they threw it all away over senseless violence.
They were just starting to come up
when Santana murdered Sara Mutschlechner - and it was all downhill from there.
Tay and Pimpyz were involved in the death of Ethan Walker a few months later,
then allegedly killed Mark Anthony Saldivar while they were on the run for that.
Now it will be decades before any of them even have a chance of getting parole.
And if Tay gets convicted for killing Saldivar, he might be put to death or locked up for life.
Rest in peace to Sara Mutschlechner,
Ethan Walker,
and Mark Anthony Saldi