Rihanna appears during trial against A $ AP Rocky and surpassing central testimony of alleged shooting

Los Angeles (AP) – The man who said rapper A $ AP ROCKY Lighthouse a gun against him in 2021, went and busted under cross-examination-and at one point shouted to the accused-if partner, Rihanna, saw in the audience.

The defense question of a $ AP Relli, the trial’s most important witness, started Wednesday when he repeatedly demanded to know why defense lawyer Joe Tacopina asked certain questions so much that the judge called a deepening, so the prosecution and his own lawyer could explain to Relli how One answers properly in court.

Before that could happen, Relli shouted at Rocky.

“You did this to yourself!” Relli shouted.

Judge Mark Arnold shouted back.

“Don’t talk to the defendant!” Said Arnold.

“He’s staring at me!” Said Relli.

Rocky, whose legal name is Rakim Athelston Mayers, is for a lawsuit against two crimes with assaults with a semi -automatic firearm for alleged firing on Relli, born Terell Ephron. The charges with a conviction could lead to Up to 25 years of prison. Rocky sat at the defense table wearing a black suit and then the witness intensely. He did not answer audibly at Relli’s cry.

Rihanna, the song superstar, who is his long -time partner and mother of their two toddler sons, caused a voting with his first performance at his trial Wednesday and sat back between Rocky’s mother and sister on Thursday. She was again brought into the courtroom creepy before most of the rest of the audience. She wore a white top and gold earrings and quietly followed the case.

Relli was frustrated with the questions asked by Tacopina, Rocky’s lawyer. The defense showed screenshots of Relli’s Instagram post in an attempt to contradict his earlier testimony that he had nothing but love for Rocky before the shooting, but that he had been so cut off to emerge that his business was destroyed, and That he had no social media presence.

“Why are you showing my Instagram? I already get death threats,” Relli told Tacopina.

“Who gives you death threats?” Asked Tacopina.

“The whole world!” Relli replied.

“The whole world gave you death threats?” Asked Tacopina.

“Yes, because you say I’m a blackmail and you’re putting all my life out there,” Relli said.

Relli sues Tacopina for libel in civil courts for his public statements and sues Rocky over the incident. The defense uses the lawsuits to throw him like someone who just seeks money from a fake story.

The testimony had hardly even treated the incident itself when the trial broke for lunch.

While testified one day earlier, Relli described the night of November 2021, when he and Rocky, their relationship strained, had a confrontation and scrub on a Hollywood street, and Rocky pointed a gun to him before walking away.

He testified that he shouted at Rocky as he went after him, then the Rocky gun pulled the gun again and held it in the air.

“He turned around, and then it was like boom!” He told the jury.

He said he felt his hand was burning where a bullet grazed it.

“I felt my hand warm,” Relli continued, saying later, “I was hit. Or I was grazed. I didn’t have a hole or nothing. “

Rocky’s lawyer says the shots he fired were not even from a real gun – they were topics from a starter gun, which he wore like a plug. The lawyer said Relli knew this and that is why he was so fearless to go after him.

“Oh, it was a real gun,” Relli testified.

About an hour after the shooting, Relli returned to the stage and said he photographed and restored two Shell -lining pipes. Earlier, while responding to a report of a shooting, police did not find anything.

Rocky and Rihanna, both 36, have two sons together: 2-year-old Rza Athelston Mayers and 1-year-old Riot Rose Mayers. Rihanna revealed that she was pregnant with the younger boy after exceeding the Super Bowl -half -time show in 2023 with a visible baby pump.

The singer and rapper, both of whom are modemoes, only became close when he delivered a verse to her song in 2012 “Cockiness (Love It)” and they performed it for MTV Video Music Awards. They became a couple in 2020.

Raised in Harlem, Rocky’s rap songs became a phenomenon on the streets of New York in 2011. He had his mainstream breakthrough when his first studio album went to No. 1 on Billboard 200 in 2013.

He is ready to have his biggest career year as a multimedia star. This Sunday he is nominated for a Grammy award at the Ceremony of Crypto.com Arena only two miles from his trial.

He is also ready to star against Denzel Washington in a movie directed by Spike Lee and to co -chair Met Gala in May.