American rapper A$AP Rocky, charged with shooting, pleads not guilty


The singer, who shares his life with Rihanna, appeared on two counts of assault with a semi-automatic weapon.

American rapper A$AP Rocky, charged for his role in a shooting last November, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday August 17 in a court in Los Angeles, California.

The 33-year-old musician, charged with two counts of assault with a semi-automatic weapon, was released on $550,000 bail and is due in court again on November 2.

Rakim Mayers, whose real name is, is suspected of pointing his gun at a former friend during an argument last November, then later shooting him twice, inflicting a “minor injury” 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 at the origin of the tubes Diamonds and Umbrellais “love of my life” and “the special one”had entrusted the singer to the magazine GQ in may 2021.

A$AP Rocky was sentenced in August 2019 to a suspended prison sentence for violence after a brawl in Stockholm.

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