LOS ANGELES (AP) — A$AP Rocky ‘s lawyers will make their case and try to establish a counternarrative Friday at his trial in Los Angeles, where the hip-hop star and fashion mogul is charged with firing a gun at a former friend on a Hollywood street in 2021.

A$AP Rocky’s lawyers have begun calling witnesses to the stand during the rapper’s Los Angeles assault trial. A chilling twist emerged Friday in the death of Adan Manzano, a 27-year-old TV reporter who traveled to cover the Super Bowl but mysteriously died in a hotel room.

A$AP Rocky's trial continues as the defense's star witness claims alleged victim A$AP Relli was the aggressor and dared Rocky to shoot him.