LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lil Nas X was charged Monday with 4 felonies after police say he charged at them once they confronted him for strolling bare down a Los Angeles avenue final week.
Prosecutors charged the musician, whose authorized identify is Montero Lamar Hill, with three counts of battery with damage on a police officer and one felony rely of resisting an government officer, the District Lawyer’s Workplace mentioned. He was initially booked on suspicion of misdemeanor obstructing an officer on Friday.
He’s set to be arraigned later Monday. His representatives haven’t responded to requests for remark.
Police mentioned officers discovered the 26-year-old strolling bare on Ventura Boulevard, a significant thoroughfare within the Studio Metropolis neighborhood, shortly earlier than 6 a.m. Friday,
They are saying he charged on the officers when confronted and was arrested. Police, suspecting a doable overdose, took him to a hospital the place he spent a number of hours earlier than being taken to jail, the place he has remained since.
The fees had been first reported by TMZ.
The rapper and singer from Atlanta is finest recognized for his large hit from 2018, “Old Town Road,” which merged nation and hip-hop. It spent a file 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100.
Identified for his genre-bending, innovating sounds and elegance, his first full studio album, 2021’s “Montero,” went to No. 2 on the Billboard album chart and was nominated for a Grammy for album of the 12 months.
