He pleaded not guilty to the counts when he appeared in a wheelchair in Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday (30May16), according to the New York Daily News.
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Police investigating a deadly shooting at a packed hip-hop concert in NY arrested a Brooklyn rap artist, saying surveillance footage showed him walking through the venue firing a gun.
In 2015, two people were wounded in a shooting at a North Carolina nightclub also featuring rapper T.I.
One of Collins’ bodyguards, Ronald McPhatter, was killed. T.I., who didn’t perform because of the shooting, wrote on Twitter on Thursday afternoon: “Rest In Peace Bro”.
He killed a member of his security team, Ronald McPhatter.
The black and white CCTV footage shows Mr Collins storm into the VIP lounge, scan the room and raise his gun.
Troy Ave (real name Rolland Collins) is charged with attempted murder, but could be upgraded to murder charges. A bodyguard to Troy Ave, 30-year-old Edgar McPhatter, was shot in the torso and died at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital.
According to Us Weekly, the Brooklyn-based rapper and friend of T.I. inadvertently shot himself in the leg and opened fire on three others ahead of T.I.’s show at Irving Plaza in the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan.
Following the incident on 25 May, The New York Daily News reported that an employee of the venue said the shooting was the result of “a beef between two rival crews”, associated with different rappers who had credentials to get into the green room. Another bystander, Maggie Heckstall, was shot in the leg.
FILE- In this January 20, 2016, file photo, T.I. arrives at the grand opening of “Jennifer Lopez: All I Have” show at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. “And for me to be a victim – I lost my brother – to not know anything about the investigation”.
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Four people were shot, including one fatally, when a fight started in a performers’ lounge at the NY venue before spilling into a second-floor VIP area. For his part, Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio said he believed it was a mistake to generalize and that there are some artists in the hip-hop culture involved in great projects for the benefit of the world.
