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Rapper charged over shooting at TI concert given bail
By Chris Cooke | Published on Tuesday 12 July 2016
Rapper Troy Ave, real name Roland Collins, was freed on bail yesterday. He has been incarcerated ever since the fatal shooting backstage at a TI concert back in May, during which Collins’s own bodyguard was killed.
As previously reported, Ronald McPhatter was killed and three others, including Collins himself, were injured during the shooting at New York’s Irving Plaza venue. Collins, who had been scheduled to perform at the show, was later arrested and charged with attempted murder and illegal weapons possession.
It is alleged that Collins had been targeting rapper Maino, with whom he had been feuding, and that he shot both McPhatter and himself by accident during the resulting fracas. Though Collins denies that version of events.
He was freed yesterday on a $500,000 bond that is secured on his mother’s Brooklyn home. The rapper, still in a wheelchair as a result of the injuries he sustained in the shooting, was told prosecutors had now consented to bail at a court hearing yesterday.
Under the terms of his bail he will have to wear an ankle monitor, isn’t allowed to leave New York City, and must stay away from all bars and venues. Those terms mean the rapper will now have to cancel a number of shows that he was scheduled to perform at.
