ASAP ROCKY. After being arrested in Los Angeles, rapper A$AP Rocky, companion of Rihanna, was released on bail. He is suspected of shooting a man in 2021.
[Mis à jour le 21 avril 2021 à 10h02] Released on bail. After being arrested by the police on Wednesday April 20, 2022, rapper A$AP Rocky finally returned home, without being out of trouble. According to several American media, the rapper had been arrested for the “assault with a deadly weapon” at Los Angeles International Airport, while returning from Barbados with his girlfriend, singer Rihanna, pregnant with their first child. “Rakim Mayers, better known as A$AP Rocky, was arrested Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport in connection with a November 2021 shooting, according to multiple law enforcement sources familiar with the matter,” the US site reported. NBCwhich confirms TMZ.
According to the same source, A$AP Rocky is the subject of an investigation opened by the Los Angeles police, for having shot a man on the evening of November 6, 2021. The alleged victim claims, still according to NBC, which site the report of police, that the rapper allegedly “shot him three to four times.” In a statement posted on social media, the Los Angeles police confirmed the information, explaining that this November evening, an argument had escalated and “resulted in the suspect firing a handgun at the victim”, who did not was only slightly injured.
33-year-old Rakim Mayers, a Los Angeles resident, also known as music artist A$AP Rocky, has been arrested in connection to a shooting that occurred in the Hollywood area in November of 2021. pic.twitter.com/YeV9w2udDL
— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) April 20, 2022
A$AP Rocky’s lawyer confirmed his arrest to the media. The rapper was released later that evening on $550,000 bail. Rihanna’s companion was returning by private jet from Barbados, where the singer is from, and where the couple had to endure rumors of deception and separation, since denied.