A$AP Rocky has been charged with two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. Los Angeles County District Lawyer George Gascón introduced the fees on Monday afternoon. Rocky, born Rakim Mayers, is ready to be arraigned on Aug. 17.
“Discharging a gun in a public place is a critical offense that would have ended with tragic penalties not just for the particular person focused but in addition for harmless bystanders visiting Hollywood,” Gascón mentioned in a press release. “My workplace carried out an intensive evaluation of the proof on this case and decided that the addition of a particular firearm allegation was warranted.”
Final week, Rolling Stone reported that the alleged sufferer is Terell Ephron, aka A$AP Relli. The D.A.’s workplace mentioned that the alleged sufferer is a former pal.
In April, A$AP Rocky was arrested at Los Angeles Worldwide Airport in reference to the incident which passed off on Nov. 6, 2021 in Hollywood. Per the D.A.’s press launch, “Mayers allegedly pointed a semi-automatic handgun on the sufferer. In a subsequent confrontation between the events, Mayers allegedly drew the semi-automatic handgun and fired twice within the course of the sufferer, prosecutors mentioned.
The rapper was on his method again to the U.S. on a personal aircraft from Barbados, the place he was vacationing along with his fiancée, Rihanna, with whom he had a son in Might. LAPD and ICE made the arrest on the airport.
The case is at present below investigation by the LAPD’s theft/murder division.
Pamela Chelin contributed to this report.
