Charged last Monday for his role in a shooting in November 2021 in Hollywood, as reported by the authorities of Los Angeles, the american rapper A$AP Rocky – in a relationship with the famous singer Rihanna and just the father of a little boy with her – pleaded not guilty yesterday in a Los Angeles court. He refuted the charges against him and “was released on $550,000 bail and is due in court again on November 2“, reports AFP.
As a reminder, the 33-year-old artist is the subject of two counts of assault with a semi-automatic weapon, according to the California city prosecutor’s office. He allegedly pointed his gun at a former friend during an argument last November before shooting him twice, inflicting a “minor injury” according to the police. He was arrested in April at Los Angeles airport, when he got off a private jet from Barbados, where his partner Rihanna is from.
A case still unsolved
Their couple had been formalized in May 2021 when the rapper had confided to the magazine QG than the huge star behind the hits Diamonds and Umbrella was “love of my life” and “the special one“. They had been dating for many years since the rapper – famous for his albums Long. Live. ASAP or Testing – had ensured the first part of the Diamonds World Tour (singer tour) in 2013.
Going back to this case, A$AP Rocky has already encountered problems with the justice system in the past, in particular after being charged for his involvement in a brawl in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 2019. He had been sentenced to a suspended prison sentence for violence, before being released by then US President Donald Trump, alerted to the situation by someone close to the rapper: his famous colleague Kanye West.
More fear than harm therefore for the darling of Rihanna, who will still have to return to defend himself in court next November for this new case, namely his alleged involvement in a shooting that occurred in Hollywood in 2021.