Chris Brown is exhausted with his name getting dragged into situations that have absolutely nothing to do with him, and he made that crystal clear after a shooting incident unfolded outside his Tarzana home on Friday afternoon.
Police responded to the scene around 4 P.M. on May 1 after a woman called to report that a man had fired a weapon at her vehicle during what started as a street argument.
The suspect, a Black man in his mid-thirties, allegedly escalated the confrontation when the woman ran over his foot, prompting him to allegedly discharge a CO2-style air-powered weapon, similar to a BB or pellet gun.
Officers arrested him on the spot for assault with a deadly weapon and vandalism, but here’s the thing that matters most: Chris Brown wasn’t involved in any of it.
The singer was home the entire time, and he made sure everyone knew it. Taking to Instagram Stories, he vented his frustration at the media’s pattern of linking his name to every incident near his property.
“AT THIS POINT THIS PATTERN IS OLD,” he wrote. “I’m looking at the news like the rest of y’all wondering when and where the hell this happened. I been in my crib this whole time. Ain’t heard a gunshot, police car, or anything. DON’T ATTACH MY NAME TO NONE OF THE BULLSHIT_._ I got S### to do!”
The timing couldn’t be worse for Brown, who’s preparing to drop his new album Brown and hit the road for a massive co-headlining tour with Usher called “The Raymond & Brown Tour.”
He’s got momentum building, positive news stacking up, and the last thing he needs right now is legal headaches.
Unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s waiting for him in court. His former housekeeper, Maria Avila, is suing him for $90 million over a 2020 dog attack incident at his home, claiming she was viciously mauled by one of his security dogs, a Caucasian Shepherd named Hades.
The trial is set to begin in June, and Avila’s legal team is fighting hard to show graphic injury photos as evidence of the severity of her injuries.
What makes this situation even messier is that Brown is trying to prevent any mention of his 2009 assault conviction involving Rihanna from being brought up during the dog bite trial.
Avila’s lawyers are pushing back, arguing that his history could be relevant to the case.
So, the shooting outside his home is just another distraction he doesn’t need, but it’s the kind of thing that keeps happening to him, and his frustration is completely justified.