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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Rapper A$AP Rocky was charged today with two counts of assault with a firearm stemming from an alleged run-in with a former friend in Hollywood last November.
The 33-year-old rapper, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, is set to be arraigned Wednesday at a downtown Los Angeles courthouse on two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
The charges include allegations that Mayers personally used a firearm. Mayers allegedly pointed a semiautomatic handgun at his former friend during a heated discussion last Nov. 6, according to the District Attorney's Office.
During a subsequent confrontation between the two, he allegedly drew the weapon and fired twice in the alleged victim's direction, according to the District Attorney's Office. Los Angeles police said the man ``sustained a minor injury from the incident and later sought his medical treatment.'' The suspect was subsequently identified as Mayers, a Los Angeles resident, also known as music artist A$AP Rocky, police said. Mayers was arrested April 20 at Los Angeles International Airport after arriving on a private plane from Barbados, where he had been on vacation with his then-pregnant girlfriend, the singer Rihanna, according to NBC News and TMZ.