ASAP The rock assault trial is aimed at closing arguments

The lawyers will give their final arguments on Thursday at the trial of rapper Asap Rocky, who is accused of two serious assault crimes with a semi -automatic firearm

Prosecutors will argue that the Hip-Hop star shot two shots to a former gun friend, while defense lawyers will say blank from a gun that was not real.

The jury members must begin deliberations in two serious assault crimes with a semi -automatic firearm for the 2021 shooting. If they condemn Rocky for both, it could obtain up to 24 years in prison.

The star of the Grammy nominated music, the tycoon and the fashion actor is the lifelong partner of the Rihanna superstar, with whom he has two young children.

The testimony at the trial ended on Tuesday when Rocky and his lawyers told a judge who would not take the position.

The case of the Prosecutor’s Office is largely based on the credibility of the man that Rocky alleges that he had shot.

Asap Filli, whose legal name is Terell Ephron, became friends with Rocky, born Rakim Mayers, at New York High School, where both were members of a creative types called Asap Mob.

His friendship continued after Rocky won the global fame for the first time with a pair of number one albums in 2012 and 2013, but by November 2021 his link had become a rivalry.

They gathered outside a Hollywood hotel and fought as soon as they saw each other. In a second confrontation moments later, Rocky shot the shots.

Filli said his knuckles were passed through one of them. The fights were partially captured in surveillance videos that are not clear enough for easy interpretation.

ASAP Twelvyy, another member of the crew that was with Rocky, testified that Filli had been the aggressor and that Rocky triggered the shots as a warning to prevent him from attacking another member of his crew.

Twelvyy testified that Rocky triggered blank spaces from a starting gun that the rapper had taken for security from a music video session months before and that all those involved in the incident knew it.

No weapon was found or presented as evidence.

The police that registered the area after a report of a shooting did not find physical evidence, but Fill itself went to a police department two days later with two caps that said he had collected after returning to the scene.

At the end of the arguments, the defense will argue that the evidence of video and text messages cannot be reliable, nor can it fill. He also filed a civil lawsuit in the case, and Rocky’s lawyers chose him as a jealous opportunist for the money of a former friend who became famous.

Filli promised to do exactly that in text messages and on phone calls recorded by a mutual friend who gave the recordings to Rocky. Filli said in his testimony that the calls were falsified.

The Prosecutor’s Office will argue that filling is looking for money just after a bad mistake was made.

They point out that Filling Communications around the incident tell a consistent story, and never mentions inventing something or knowing Rocky with a support gun.

Prosecutors are likely to argue that the entire idea of ​​the starting gun, which only shoots in white, is an absurd lie coordinated by Rocky’s internal circle.