(Los Angeles) American rapper A$AP Rocky, charged for his role in a shooting last November, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday in a court in Los Angeles, California.
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The 33-year-old musician, charged with two counts of assault with a semi-automatic weapon, was released on $550,000 bond and is due in court again on November 2.
Rakim Mayers, whose real name is, is suspected of having pointed his gun at an old friend during an argument last November, then, not later, of having shot him twice, inflicting a “light wound according to the police.
The rapper denies these accusations.
The artist was arrested in April at Los Angeles airport, when he got off a private jet from Barbados, where his partner Rihanna is from and with whom he had a child in May.
Rihanna, huge star behind the successes Diamonds and Umbrellais “the love of my life” and “the only one”, had confided the singer to the magazine QG in May 2021.
A$AP Rocky was sentenced in August 2019 to a suspended prison sentence for violence after a brawl in Stockholm.