LOS ANGELES (AP/Courtroom TV) — A$AP Rocky is dealing with trial on fees that he fired a gun at a former good friend and collaborator on the streets close to a Hollywood lodge in 2021.

Rocky, whose authorized title is Rakim Mayers, is charged with two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. Prosecutors have stated he might stand up to 24 years in jail if convicted on all fees.

Rocky was arrested in April 2022, and pleaded not responsible to the costs later that yr.

At a preliminary listening to in 2023, Terell Ephron testified that he and Rocky, a good friend since childhood, had belonged to the identical collective of musicians and artists at their New York highschool.

He stated their relationship had began to bitter and resulted within the standoff in Hollywood on Nov. 6, 2021, when he stated Rocky first pulled a gun on him and, in a later confrontation, fired photographs that grazed Ephron’s knuckles. Prosecutors claimed surveillance video that captured elements of the incident “corroborates precisely what Mr. Ephron stated.”

At that listening to, Rocky’s legal professional, Joe Tacopina, established whereas questioning a police detective that seven officers who searched a sidewalk and road about 20 minutes after the photographs had been allegedly fired discovered no proof of the capturing, and {that a} pair of 9 mm shell casings in police possession had been recovered by Ephron, who returned to the scene about an hour after the standoff.

Jury choice is scheduled to start Jan. 21.