A$AP Rocky was arrested Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport in connection with a shooting in Hollywood last November. Los Angeles Police detectives arrested the 33-year-old, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, for assault with a deadly weapon. A$AP Rocky had just landed at LAX aboard a private jet Wednesday morning when he was handcuffed and taken into custody inside the terminal. The rapper had just flown back to the U.S. from Barbados with singer Rihanna, who is pregnant with the couple’s child.
The Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement that the shooting escalated from an argument on Nov. 6. and identified Mayers as the gunman who “fired a handgun at the victim. The victim sustained a minor injury from the incident and later sought medical treatment”. Detectives said the suspect and two other men ran from the scene after the shooting.
This is not the first time the rapper has been arrested; Mayers was convicted of assault in Sweden in 2019 for his involvement in a street fight in Stockholm after a concert, and was imprisoned for nearly a month. He and his entourage argued that they acted in self-defense; and Mayers was eventually sentenced to two years probation.
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