Rapper A$AP Rocky Pleads Not Guilty To Assault Charges Over 2021 Hollywood Shooting – Update
deadline.comUPDATED, 12:28 PM: A$AP Rocky pleaded not guilty today to charges stemming from an allegation that he pulled a gun on a fellow rapper during a 2021 altercation in Hollywood and then fired at him soon afterward during another confrontation.
The multiplatinum artist (real name Rakim Mayers) is charged with two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, along with allegations that he used a firearm against Terell Ephron aka A$AP Relli on the night of November 6, 2021.
He remains free on bond. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge M.L. Villar ruled in November that there was sufficient evidence to allow the case against Mayers to proceed to trial.
Ephron testified at the hearing that he saw Mayers outside a parking garage in an encounter partially caught on surveillance video and that Mayers pulled a gun from his waistband, put it toward his stomach and said, “I’ll kill you right now.” At that same hearing, Mayers’ attorney Joe Tacopina urged Villar to dismiss the case for lack of evidence.
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