LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a stretch of questioning crucial to the defense of A$AP Rocky, his lawyer on Friday challenged the account of his accuser, who said he suffered a hand injury when the hip-hop performer fired a gun at him in 2021. Superstar singer Rihanna, Rocky’s partner and the mother of their two children, watched from the audience as the man who goes by A$AP Relli, a former friend of Rocky, underwent a second day of cross-examination that left him visibly frustrated and at times angry. She slipped into court for a third day about 30 minutes into the testimony and sat next to Rocky’s mother after coming in through a public entrance. After the lunch break, she entered the courtroom together with Rocky for the first time. She had been brought in privately, out of view of the public, on her previous visits.Relli had testified under prosecution questioning that his hand felt hot when Rocky fired at him on a Hollywood street and his hand was grazed. A photo was shown of scrapes that had torn the skin on his…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who alleges A$AP Rocky fired a handgun at him in 2021 said Thursday that his story may have changed over the past three years, but his fading memory doesn't change what fundamentally happened. “A gun was pulled on me. It was pointed at me, and it was fired later,” the man, who goes by A$AP Relli, said at the Los Angeles trial of Rocky, his former friend. “It’s been three years. If he was innocent he would be home a long time ago.” Rihanna, the superstar singer and Rocky's partner, watched from the audience for the second straight day.After the jury left for the day, Superior Court Mark Arnold said that he hadn't heard the latter part of the statement, and would tell them to disregard it when they returned for the rest of the cross-examination Friday. Relli, whose legal name is Terell Ephron, testified that when the confrontation began on a Hollywood street, Rocky pointed a gun at his stomach and head, but it wasn’t actually touching him, and that Rocky said he was going to kill him. Rocky's…

A$AP Rocky's text messages to A$AP Relli after the alleged shooting incident have been revealed in court with the Harlem rapper denying any wrongdoing.