Six men, most with lengthy criminal records, were arrested over the weekend for shooting up Atlanta rapper Waka Flocka Flame's tour bus, WSOC-TV reports.
Mecklenburg County (N.C.) police charged Xavier Hoover, Andre Sellers, Antonio Stukes, David Bellamy, Antonie Washington and Berry Lawrence with robbery with a dangerous weapon and discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling.
The rapper was having a stereo installed last Wednesday when, according to the rapper's publicist, Kali Bowyer, random cars pulled up and began shooting. Waka Flocka's security guards returned fire, injuring Stukes, who told WSOC-TV he was an innocent bystander.
"Everything was just real chill, and then [expletive] got crazy," he said. Stukes' attorney said he merely wanted to give Waka Flocka a demo tape, but police told the Charlotte station the suspects intended on robbing the tour bus.
Bond was set at between $175,000 and $300,000 for the alleged shooters.
Waka Flocka (birth name: Juaquin James Malphurs) recently spent two days in a Henry County jail after turning himself in to authorities. He was booked on charges including drug and weapons possession, as well as criminal street gang activity and a probation violation, according to jail records.
In December, police arrested two people at Malphurs' Henry County home for possession of a minor amount of marijuana. The rapper wasn't home at the time but still was charged.
He was arrested in Houston County last March for leaving Georgia to perform at a concert, which violated his probation from a 2006 incident. At the time, he pleaded guilty to possession of a sawed-off shotgun and received four years' probation, the Houston County Superior Court Clerk's office said.
Malphurs was last targeted by thieves in January 2010, when he was shot in the arm at the Bubble Bath Car Wash on Old National Highway.
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