The 36-year-old pop star has been in a relationship with A$AP, also 36, since 2020 and he had been accused of shooting his former friend Terrell Ephron during an altercation near a hotel almost four years ago but after he was acquitted on Tuesday (18.02.25), Rihanna took to social media to share here relief.
During the trial, Ephron had claimed that the Grammy Award-winning rapper - whose real name is Rakim Mayers - had opened fire on him and grazed his knuckles in the process, but A$AP denied the charges throughout.
During the trial, Mayers's defense argued that the firearm in question was a harmless prop gun, whilst Ephron and his legal team alleged that it was an actual weapon.
Just before the trial, A$AP had rejected an offer of serving six months in jail if he accepted just one of the two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm.
Mayers had been facing up to 24 years in prison, but the 12-person jury found him not guilty, almost a month after the trial began in late January.
