Los Angeles rapper Blueface was arrested on Tuesday in Las Vegas for felony attempted murder with the use of a deadly weapon.
Rapper Blueface poses for a mug shot in Las Vegas after his arrest on Wednesday for attempted murder. (Image: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Dept.)He was also charged with discharging a firearm into an occupied structure. The charges stem from an October 8 shooting in Las Vegas, according to a statement tweeted by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD).
The 25-year-old rapper, whose real name is Johnathan Jamall Porter, was apprehended at 2:40 p.m. by undercover officers outside Lo-Lo s Chicken Waffles, just east of the Flamingo Las Vegas on the Strip. The officers, who had a warrant for the arrest, booked the rapper into the Clark County Detention Center.
Video of Blueface’s arrest, published by TMZ, shows the rapper sitting outside a business with his girlfriend, Chrisean Rock, 22, when men dressed in civilian clothing suddenly pin him against a wall, handcuff him, and walk him away.
Scene of the CrimeTMZ obtained footage of the October 8 incident, in which a person resembling the rapper is shown pulling out a weapon and firing it multiple times at the truck driver pulling up alongside Blueface and his crew. The driver then speeds away.
Sources at the venue told TMZ that the driver had entered the club earlier and was attacked by the rapper s crew, who had allegedly been drinking. The driver apparently waited for Blueface and his crew to exit the club.
What started the altercation was not clear.
