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Expecting child together: Rihanna and A$AP Rocky
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US rapper A$AP Rocky has been arrested in an alleged gunshot incident.
The friend of pop superstar Rihanna was taken into custody at the airport in the US west coast metropolis of Los Angeles, the police said.
The charge is assault with a deadly weapon.
According to the police, the background to the arrest is a "quarrel between two acquaintances" in Hollywood last November, in which "the suspect shot the victim with a handgun".
The suspect is said to be A$AP Rocky, whose real name is Rakim Mayers.
The victim suffered only minor injuries.
The suspects had fled after the incident.
According to reports from the broadcaster NBC News and the celebrity portal »TMZ«, the 33-year-old musician was arrested after returning to Los Angeles from Barbados on a private jet.
Accordingly, the couple vacationed on Rihanna's home island.
Mayers and Rihanna are expecting their first child, the couple made the pregnancy public at the end of January.
It's not the first time the rapper has gotten into trouble with the law.
The New York-born musician was arrested in 2019 in the Swedish capital Stockholm after a street fight.
He was released after more than a month in custody and was later given a suspended sentence for assault.
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