Update on Troy Ave club shooting at T.I. concert.
Pix 11 NY reports that Troy Ave will be bringing a lawsuit against Irving Plaza and its parent company Live Nation over the May shooting backstage at a T.I. concert. In the reported lawsuit, Troy alleges that the venue’s lax security policies allowed a gun into the building. He believes that the company is at fault for not having stricter measures in place to stop people from bringing weapons inside, and says that these policies directly led to the shooting he was involved in.
Troy Ave was arrested on May 26, one day after a shooting at Irving Plaza that left his bodyguard dead and three others injured. A widely-circulated video showed him firing several shots backstage at the venue. He was later released on a $500,000 bond after being hit with a second degree attempted murder charge and three charges of second degree criminal possession of a weapon.
Here at Troy Ave’s press conference announcing his lawsuit against Irving Plaza and Live Nation pic.twitter.com/JRZ6CjD4IG
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He maintains his innocence, claiming on his recently-released mixtape Free Troy Ave that he was attacked first and was only defending himself. He’s also claimed that he grabbed the gun from the shooter that killed his bodyguard, although he has reportedly been completely uncooperative with investigators in helping to determine who it was that shot him.
