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 $550,000 bail and is due in court once more on November 2.
Rakim Mayers, real name, is suspected of pointing his gun at a former friend during an argument last November, then later shooting him twice, inflicting a ‘minor wound “, according to the police.
The rapper denies these accusations.
The artist was arrested in April at Los Angeles airport when he got off a private jet from Barbados, where his girlfriend, Rihanna, is from and with whom he had a child in May. .
Rihanna, huge star at the origin of the tubes Diamonds et Umbrella, is “the love of my life” and “the only one”, had confided the singer to the magazine GQ in May 2021.
A$AP Rocky was sentenced in August 2019 to a suspended prison sentence for violence following a brawl in Stockholm.
