By Reuters
Rakim Mayers, aka A$AP Rocky, appearing in court during his felony assault trial at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Centre in Los Angeles, California, February 14, 2025. Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON
A Los Angeles jury has found rapper A$AP Rocky not guilty of two felony counts of assault with a semi-automatic weapon in a 2021 altercation with another hip-hop artist in Hollywood.
Rocky, the romantic partner of singer Rihanna and father of her two sons, was accused of pointing a handgun at a former friend, Terell Ephron, during a heated argument, then firing twice in Ephron's direction during a second confrontation. Both encounters occurred on 6 November 2021.
Ephron said he suffered a minor injury when his knuckles were grazed by a bullet.
Rocky's defence attorneys said the gun involved in the incident was a prop gun the artist had used in a music video and that it fired only blanks.
They also said Ephron was the aggressor in the confrontation.
- Reuters
