American rapper A$AP Rocky, companion of Rihanna, has been charged for his role in a shooting last November in Hollywood, authorities in Los Angeles, California announced on Monday.
Real name Rakim Mayers, the 33-year-old musician is facing two counts of assault with a semi-automatic weapon, according to the Los Angeles district attorney's office.
He is suspected of pointing his gun at a former friend during an argument last November, then later shooting him twice, inflicting a "
minor injury
" according to police.
"
The Love of My Life
"
A$AP Rocky is scheduled to appear in Los Angeles court on Wednesday.
The rapper 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 behind the hits “
Diamonds
” and “
Umbrella
”, is “
the love of my life
” and “
the only one
”, had entrusted the singer to GQ magazine in May 2021. A$AP Rocky had was sentenced in August 2019 to a suspended prison sentence for violence after a brawl in Stockholm.