Swedish hip-hop artist David Moses Jassy was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison on March 4 for his attack on a pedestrian in a Hollywood intersection that left the man dead.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Johnson sentenced Jassy after the victim’s family read several letters on the impact of losing John Osnes, a 55-year-old jazz pianist.

“Mr. Jassy, try as I might to make sense of what happened to my brother the night he was killed, I will never, ever understand. I will always love my brother and I will be forever sad,” wrote the victim’s youngest sister, Mary Beth Osnes Anderson.

In February, a jury found the 35-year-old Jassy guilty of second-degree murder, assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury and battery with serious bodily injury for the November 23, 2008 incident.

Osnes was crossing the street at Schrader Boulevard and Selma Avenue on foot when the rental SUV Jassy was driving stopped inside the crosswalk. Witnesses testified that Jassy got out and punched the victim in the face after Osnes hit the hood of his car with his hands. As Osnes bent over to pick up his glasses, Jassy kicked him in the head.

Jassy then drove his rental car over the victim’s body as he left, authorities said.