Mourners gathered at a West Adams church Saturday for the funeral of Terry Carter, a 55-year-old foster parent allegedly struck and killed by a rap mogul's pickup truck in Compton last week.
Carter founded Heayweight Records in 1998 with rapper Ice Cube, and was remembered by his family, which included 20 foster children, as kind, generous and hardworking.
"If I ever needed anything, they said, 'Call Big Terry,'" said Carter's neice, Aryca Sawyer.
Carter's funeral was held at First AME Church of Los Angeles
Prosecutors charged Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight with Carter's murder.
Knight has admitted through an attorney he was driving the truck that struck Carter in a restaurant's parking lot in the 1200 block of West Rosecrans Avenue on Thursday, Jan. 29, but said he was trying to escape four attackers.
Patrick Healy contributed to this report.
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