A$AP Rocky Pre-Trial Date Set After Rapper Pleaded Not Guilty to Shooting at A$AP Relli

A$AP Rocky is set to head to trial after pleading not guilty to two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm after being accused of shooting at A$AP Relli, his former childhood friend and artistic collaborator, in 2021.

On Monday, the rapper (real name Rakim Mayers) appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom with his attorney Joe Tacopina. Los Angeles Judge Karla D. Kerlin set the rapper's next court date, a pre-trial hearing, for March 6.

A$AP Rocky originally pled not guilty back in November 2023 to two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm after police alleged that he fired a gun at A$AP Relli outside a Los Angeles hotel in 2021.

The footage from the November 2021 incident allegedly showed the "Praise the Lord" rapper point a handgun towards A$AP Relli (real name Terell Ephron) and fire multiple times.

The rapper also pled not guilty to two counts of assault with a firearm in an August 2022 civil suit, in which A$AP Relli alleged that he suffered emotional distress and that he had to seek medical attention as a result.

Both A$AP Relli and police testified that the bullets grazed Relli's hand.

"Defendant generally denies each and every allegation of the complaint, and specifically denies that Plaintiff has been damaged in any amount or in any way as a result of any act or omission of answering defendant," A$AP Rocky's attorneys wrote in response to the civil complaint, per People. "The injuries and/or damages complained of in the complaint, if any, were caused solely, directly and proximately by the negligent and/or intentional acts or omissions of person other than answering defendant."

A$AP Rocky could face up to nine years in prison if found guilty.