Judge Rules A$ AP Rocky Need To Stand Trial in Shooting Case

A$ AP Rocky is dealing with a trial.

A Los Angeles judge ruled on Nov. 20 that the rap artist (genuine name Rakim Mayers) should stand trial on charges that he fired chance ats a buddy throughout a 2021 occurrence in Hollywood, according toNBC News Rocky– who shares kids RZA, 19 months, and Riot, 2 months, with Rihanna— has actually pled innocent to 2 felony counts of attack with a semiautomatic gun.

The judge figured out “the totality of the video and statement” revealed sufficient proof for the case to head to trial.

” We’re not dissatisfied, not shocked, we anticipated to go to trial, we have actually been preparing for trial the whole time,” Rocky’s lawyer Joe Tacopina informed press reporters outside court, per NBC News. “Rocky is going to be vindicated when all this is stated and done, without concern.”

Throughout the initial hearing, Rocky’s youth pal A$ AP Relli (genuine name Terell Ephron) affirmed that the set had a run-in on Nov. 6, 2021.

Rocky, 35, apparently pointed a weapon at him “throughout a heated conversation,” per a Los Angeles District Lawyer’s Workplace news release acquired by E! News in August 2022. Then, in what district attorneys called a “subsequent conflict,” the “Applaud the Lord” vocalist drew the weapon and apparently fired 2 shots towards Relli.