Usher Stepson Killer Guilty of Homicide; Kile Glover's Death Was an Accident, Says Mother Tameka
Jeffrey Simon Hubbard, the man who killed Usher Raymond's former stepson, was found guilty of homicide by vessel in the first degree among other related charges on Thursday.
Hubbard, a former family friend, was convicted on five different counts relating to the 2012 death of Kile Glover, the 11-year-old son of Usher's ex-wife Tameka Foster. Hall County jurors found him guilty of serious injury by vessel, reckless operation, unlawful operation of personal watercraft and a boat traffic violation in addition to the homicide conviction, according to CNN.
Hubbard is due to be sentenced on March 5 and Foster believes that the incident, which occured on Lake Lanier northeast of Atlanta, was a tragic accident.
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"At the end of the day, I know he didn't do it on purpose," Foster told WSB News.
Glover and his biological father, Ryan Glover, an Atlanta television executive, were reportedly vacationing at Lake Lanier when Hubbard crashed his watercraft into the boy's raft. The child suffered irreversible brain damage and was pronounced dead at a hospital two weeks later on July 21, 2012.
A 15-year-old girl was later identified as being the second victim injured in the accident while riding with Glover. She was also air lifted to Egelston with Glover and reportedly suffered a broken arm and cut on the head.
Usher, 34, divorced Glover's mother Tameka Foster in 2009 after two years of marriage, but the singer helped raised the boy for several years.
"Usher is completely devastated and shaken with what has occurred. [He] is emotionally drained from the accident. He feels incredibly awful, distraught … it's been a complete rollercoaster of emotions," a source previously told HollywoodLife.com.
In August 2012, Usher was awarded primary custody of Foster's two youngest children, Usher V, 4, and Naviyd Ely, 3.
During the court battle, Foster argued that the singer was an absentee father who was constantly on the road and too absorbed in his career to care for their sons. Usher countered that Foster was an unfit mother.
