American rapper A$AP Rocky, companion of Rihanna, has been charged for his role in a shooting in Hollywood last November, authorities in Los Angeles, California, announced on Monday.
The 33-year-old musician, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, faces two assaults with a semi-automatic weapon, according to the Los Angeles Attorney’s Office.
He is suspected of pointing his gun at a former friend during an argument last November and later shooting him twice, suffering “minor injuries”, according to police.
A$AP Rocky is scheduled to appear in court in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
The rapper was arrested at Los Angeles Airport in April as he got off a private jet from Barbados, where his girlfriend Rihanna is from and with whom he had a child in May.
Rihanna, the giant star behind the hits “Diamonds” and “Umbrella”, is “the love of my life” and “the only one”, the singer had confided to GQ magazine in May 2021.
A$AP Rocky was given a suspended sentence in August 2019 for violence after a brawl in Stockholm.