Photographers and reporters waited for her arrival out of the classroom, she used a service lift and was already inside waiting for the hearing. Yesterday Rihanna appeared in a court in Los Angeles to support the rapper, partner and father of two of his children at $ ap Rocky, accused of armed aggression.
Sitting between Rocky's mother and sister, and surrounded by bodyguards, Rihanna witnessed the second hearing relating to facts that date back to more than three years ago. It was November 6, 2021 A road in Hollywood, California.
The quarrel would have been unleashed by a comment by A $ ap Rocky, according to which Ephron would be “Mad Emotional”. Ephron knew Rocky was armed. After a first altercation in which Rocky showed the weapon, the arrival of some passers -by pushed the rapper to leave. Ephron followed him around the corner.
“I see Rocky who turns. He points the weapon down and explodes the first shot », which would have touched his left hand. At that point, Ephron would have called another member of the collective to $ ap mobs to get help, or at $ ap illz (Illijah ulanger).
The weapon, a semi -automatic 9 millimeters, has never been found. A $ ap Rocky says it was a starter gun and therefore he would not have shot “real” bullets. He had taken her from the set of a video shot in 2021 with Rihanna and kept her with him to discourage any attacks. The rapper admits that he shot two warning shots, but only to stop a fight between Ulanger and Ephron. The latter claims to have gone to the hotel and to have returned to the scene of the shooting to collect the two 9mm shells and deliver them to the police the next day. According to Rocky's lawyer, the day of the facts seven agents had sought the shells without finding them.
Ephron claims to have undergone retaliation to have denounced $ ap Rocky. He would have been threatened with death and his management agency, the Shut Eye Entertainment, would have lost many customers.
During the hearing sequences of the facts captured by various surveillance chambers were shown. You can see at $ ap Rocky with a weapon, you listen to the bang of the two shots, you do not see the typical flash of the shot exit the gun. Messages sent from Ephron to Rockyin were also shown to which he accuses him of trying to kill him and Rocky's answers: “What the fuck are you talking about?”, “Why are you going around saying that I shot you?”, “Do you want to extort myself money ».
At $ ap Rocky he had been stopped for the facts in April 2022. For his lawyer, the case does not exist and Ephron aims only to Rocky's money, which in the event of a sentence risks up to 24 years in prison.