Beneath her umbrella.
Rihanna introduced her and A$AP Rocky’s two youngsters, RZA and Riot, to a Los Angeles courtroom Thursday, the place closing arguments within the rapper’s gun assault trial had been set to happen.
The “Love on the Brain” singer, 36, arrived exterior the courthouse in a black Escalade, rising with RZA, 2, in her arms, whereas one other particular person carried 1-year-old Riot.
Carrying a black leather-based coat and over-the-calf python-print boots, Rihanna was shielded from the rain by her bodyguards who lined the Fenty Magnificence founder with a number of umbrellas.
Rihanna’s courtroom go to marks the primary time she has introduced her and A$AP Rocky’s youngsters to their father’s trial, which started Jan. 24. She has attended the trial a number of different occasions.
Rocky faces two felony prices of assault with a semiautomatic firearm stemming from a November 2021 dust-up together with his former good friend A$AP Relli, who testified that Rocky confronted him exterior a Hollywood parking storage and threatened him with a gun.
“I’ll kill you right now,” Relli alleged Rocky instructed him whereas pointing the gun towards his abdomen.
Relli stated the hip-hop star then rotated and shot at him, although the bullet solely grazed his left hand. Rocky’s former good friend sought remedy for injured knuckles at a New York hospital days later.
A$AP Rocky has denied Relli’s accusations.
On Friday, Rocky’s longtime good friend and collaborator A$AP Twelvyy testified that the gun the rapper allegedly fired was a starter pistol, or prop gun.
“He walked around with a prop, like a starter pistol,” Twelvyy instructed the courtroom. “I seen it on several occasions,” he stated, including that Relli knew the pistol wasn’t actual.
“He told him to shoot that fake-ass gun,” Twelvyy stated when questioned by the protection.
Beneath cross-examination from Deputy District Lawyer John Lewin, Twelvvy was requested if Rocky and Rihanna may injury his profession for not telling the couple’s model of occasions.
“It’s your testimony that even if the defendant and his significant other Rihanna were upset with you, they would have no ability to impact your career whatsoever?” Lewin requested.
Twelvyy replied, “I’m an artist, I could start a new career tomorrow. I could be a painter.”
If convicted, Rocky faces as much as 24 years in jail. He didn’t testify within the trial.
