A$AP Rocky is dealing with a trial.
A Los Angeles decide dominated on Nov. 20 that the rapper (actual identify Rakim Mayers) should stand trial on charges that he fired photographs at a pal throughout a 2021 incident in Hollywood, in keeping with NBC News. Rocky—who shares kids RZA, 19 months, and Riot, 2 months, with Rihanna—has pled not guilty to two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm.
The decide decided “the totality of the video and testimony” confirmed sufficient proof for the case to move to trial.
“We’re not disenchanted, not stunned, we anticipated to go to trial, we have been planning for trial all alongside,” Rocky’s lawyer Joe Tacopina instructed reporters exterior court docket, per NBC Information. “Rocky goes to be vindicated when all that is mentioned and accomplished, with out query.”
Throughout the preliminary listening to, Rocky’s childhood pal A$AP Relli (actual identify Terell Ephron) testified that the pair had an altercation on Nov. 6, 2021.
Rocky, 35, allegedly pointed a gun at him “throughout a heated dialogue,” per a Los Angeles District Lawyer’s Workplace press launch obtained by E! Information in August 2022. Then, in what prosecutors referred to as a “subsequent confrontation,” the “Reward the Lord” singer drew the gun and allegedly fired two photographs towards Relli.