After nearly a week of absence, Rihanna reentered A$AP Rocky’s trial in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, February 6.
The prosecution was concluding its presentation when the singer and entrepreneur arrived later in the day during her partner’s gun assault trial.
Rocky, real name Rakim Mayers, is charged with two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm involving a confrontation with his former friend, Terrell Epheron, formerly A$AP Relli
According to the Associated Press, five witnesses were called to testify on Thursday afternoon, including two legal authorities, a firearms expert, and a detective. As previously reported, Epheron and Mayers became friends in high school years before their relationship became strained, leading to a violent confrontation in Hollywood on November 6, 2021.
While Epheron wasn’t seriously injured, he claims bullets grazed his knuckles, although the defense alleges that the weapon was a prop gun previously used in a music video.
Furthermore, Rihanna attended three days of the trial last week, where she reportedly sat between Mayer’s mother, Renee Black, and sister, Erica B. Rihanna and the “Tailor Swif” rapper share two sons, RZA, 2, and Riot, 18 months.
The trial was thrown into a tailspin during separate incidents of shouting matches between Epheron and Mayers’ attorney, Joe Tacopina, involving allegations of whether Epheron planned to extort the rapper. Presumably backing the prosecution’s claim that the firearm was legitimate is LAPD Detective Frank Flores, who testified that the surveillance video revealed “the distinct sound of a firearm” or “some kind of replica firearm potentially.”
