American Rapper Rakim Mayers, popularly known as A$AP Rocky, has been arrested and detained on Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport in connection to a November 2021 shooting, according to multiple law enforcement sources familiar with the matter.
The rapper was arriving on a private plane from Barbados, where he had been on vacation with his girlfriend Rihanna.
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ASAP Rocky had been under investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department for a Nov. 6 shooting near Vista Del Mar and Selma Ave. around 10:20 pm. The shooting victim later told police that Mayers, who was walking with two others, approached him with a handgun on the street. The victim claimed Mayers shot at him three to four times and believed one of the bullets grazed his left hand, according to police reports.