The 33-year-old musician is suspected of having pointed out his weapon towards an ex-friend and having shot him twice. He must appear on Wednesday before a court of Los Angeles.
Le Monde with AFP
The American rapper A $ AP Rocky, companion of Rihanna, was charged for his role in a shooting last November in Hollywood, announced on Monday August 15 the authorities of Los Angeles in California.
of his real name Rakim Mayers, the 33-year-old musician is targeted by two charges for aggression with a semi-automatic weapon, according to the Los Angeles prosecutor’s office. He is suspected of having pointed out his weapon to a former friend during an argument last November, then, later, of having shot him twice, inflicting a “light injury” according to the police.
A $ AP Rocky is scheduled to appear on Wednesday before a court of Los Angeles.
sentenced to suspended in 2019
The rapper had been arrested in April at Los Angeles airport, his descent from a private jet coming from the Barbados, where his partner Rihanna is from and with whom he had a child in May .
Rihanna, immense star at the origin of the tubes Diamonds and Umbrella, is “the love of my life” and “the only one”, had entrusted the singer to the magazine GQ in May 2021.
A $ AP Rocky had been sentenced in August 2019 to a suspended prison sentence for violence after a brawl in Stockholm.