American rapper A$AP Rocky, Rihanna’s partner, has been charged for his role in a shooting last November in Hollywood, authorities in Los Angeles, California announced Monday.

Real name Rakim Mayers, the 33-year-old musician faces two counts of assault with a semi-automatic weapon, according to the Los Angeles district attorney’s office.

Convicted in 2019 for violence

He is suspected of pointing his gun at a former friend during an argument last November and then shooting him twice, causing a “minor injury,” according to police.

The rapper was arrested in April at the Los Angeles airport when he was getting off a private jet from Barbados, where his girlfriend Rihanna is from and with whom he had a son in May. Rihanna, great star in the origin of the tubes diamonds Y ParasolIt is “the love of my life” and “the only one”, the singer had confided to GQ magazine in May 2021.

A$AP Rocky was sentenced in August 2019 to a suspended prison sentence for violence after a fight in Stockholm.