The video clearly showing Troy Ave entering the VIP room of T.I.’s concert Irving Plaza and shooting openly at unidentified persons has cost him dearly.
The rapper was formally charged with attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon in Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday evening in connection with the fatal shooting last week. Troy, whose real name is Roland Collins, asked the judge for $50,000 bail through his lawyers but Judge Ushir Pandit-Durant ordered that he be held without bail until trial.
His lawyer Scott E. Leemon pleaded that the rapper wasn’t responsible for the gunfire that erupted around 10:15 pm that night which left his bodyguard Ronald McPhatter dead and three others wounded.
“What really happened here is Mr. Collins here is the real victim. The person who was killed at this event, he died a hero. He (McPhatter) was his bodyguard. He wasn’t shot by Mr. Collins. He was a lifelong friend. This 11 seconds of video that the NYPD released, it doesn’t say what happened before, it doesn’t say what happened after. The scientific evidence will show he didn’t shoot himself. This was another rush to judgement.”
via NY Daily News
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