Although Maino had already taken to social media to say that he was not involved in a concert shooting with Troy Ave, the NYPD officially cleared him from their investigation today (June 2).
According to the New York Daily News, NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce gave the official statement.
“We do not believe that he was involved in the dispute,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said in a statement.
Maino took to Instagram to repost the news story.
“Now let’s get back to the music… HeardU,” he captioned in a screenshot of the article.
Troy Ave was arrested last week and charged with attempted murder after a surveillance video was released that shows the BSB rapper firing a gun in a green room area at Irving Plaza during a T.I. concert. Three people were injured, including Ave who reportedly shot himself in the leg. The rapper’s bodyguard, Ronald “Banga” McPhatter was killed after being shot in the chest.
Ave pled not guilty to the charges. His lawyers are saying that their client acted in self defense and did not shoot himself or his friend. They say that the surveillance video does not tell the whole story.
Earlier this week, law enforcement identified a gun found in the van that took Troy Ave to the hospital as the murder weapon. The New York Daily News report says that police have possession of three guns in total and that they have not ruled out the possibility of more than one shooter.
Maino was performing with Uncle Murda as the opening act for T.I. at the time of the shooting. Maino’s girlfriend, model Maggie Carrie Heckstall, was hit and is reportedly planning to sue various parties involved including Live Nation who owns Irving Plaza.
After the shooting, Maino denounced rumors that said a confrontation between him and Troy Ave caused the shooting.
“Won’t let them undo what we’re building!” he said. “No ‘ongoing beefs’ or ‘entourage issues.’ It always has been and always will be good relations between myself AND MY TEAM and @TroyAve @Hovain@YoungLitoBsB and the BSB crew.”
Troy Ave’s manager, Hovain, also denied Maino’s involvement.
“And stop letting the media tell y’all a story of fantasy we never had no problems with @mainohustlehard,” he says on Instagram, “stop making shit up and people stop being so quicc to believe anything. We been threw a lot since we came threw and got threw it and that’s what we gone do to this. Thank you for all the calls texts and prayers and if you counting us out fuck you succ my dicc. #ripbanger #riptroyave”
Haha, guess he never made it “threw” English class
How y’all gone change the quote to #riptroyave
Troy got a choice snitch on who started shooting first or 25 years to life cause the NYPD most def gonna charge him with more stuff since they got the murder weapon out his truck. Personally i wouldnt consider it snitching if he was attacked snitching is when you knowingly set out with someone to commit a crime get caught and tell. On the flip side Troy does talk a lot of gangster ish so no form of snitching is gonna be acceptable to a lot of people he gotta choose between risking trial or killing his career and being free.
Troy Ave’s didn’t finish elementary school I fear. Im not sure he is the right man for the job. Also, #riptroyave? Why the F would you hashtag that? Smh
Troy Ave’s manager*
Worst thing about this is that NYPD have demonstrated their lack of competency regarding handling cases. Blaming Troy prematurely. If i was a New Yorker I would be embarrased and concerned with the competency of the police force.
NYPD stay making Chief Wiggum look competent.
if you hatin on Troy Ave then u playin urself. not fan of his music but that’s a legit dude who handled that situation like a real G.
Them other dudes bogus fraud on some straight evil shit.
Cowards, w/ no regard for human life, bring at least one gun into a gun-free zone & shoot at unarmed people hitting random people in a crowd killing at least one. After being shot himself, Troy wrestles a gun away from the maniacs & risks his own life chasing after them.
Not knowing if these cold-blooded killers have any more guns but knowing that he’s now the only other person with a gun & the only hope of stopping these maniacs from killing anybody else -with only a couch to use as cover- Troy puts his life in even greater risk by firing a shot at the lunatics while doing his best to duck & ultimately assuring the safety of everybody else as Troy sends these cowards fleeing from the gun-free zone.
That’s truly heroic & Troy’s the definition of a real dude who potentially saved countless other lives.
(to further erase any doubts of innocence, Troy doesn’t tamper with evidence & keeps the gun for investigators)
Then, in an inconceivable turn of events, the NYPD charge TROY with attempted murder & hold him without bail while Police Commissioner William Bratton holds a press conference telling reporters that the he has decided that rappers should be blamed for the crimes committed during this incident.
it’s always so great when hiphopdx writes an article about tweets. so nice how they write the entire tweet & then post the tweet after that.
Exactly. And it’s only this Victoria girl. They shouldn’t be letting her cover this story. Thisis50 got the real articles
so basically Taxstone is a Troy Ave stalker with unhealthy obsession, so jealous that Troy is the rapper Taxstone will never that it drove Taxstone to trying to murder Troy Ave or Taxstone is gay infatuated with Troy & planned to kill Troy bcz he couldn’t be with Troy romanticly.
Taxstone is going to get premeditated murder charges for that obviously Taxstone’s been planning it out for looooong time.
Troy ave doing that shyne time!!! 10+ years you heard it here first folks!!!! enjoy your new cell partner! LOL!!!!!