According to TMZ, Troy Ave has murder charges dropped. The rapper was arrested last month, May 2016, for attempted murder after surveillance video showed him firing a gun outside a green room at Irving Plaza.

Sources says that the indictment is based on five charges, all felonies. The charges are attempted second degree murder and four counts of criminal possession of a weapon.

Rapper Troy Ave,  whose real name is Roland Collins, pleaded not guilty claims he acted in self defense.  Troy Ave was denied bail and is held in Rikers Island.

The shooting that occurred May, 25th, 2016 left three wounded, including Ave, who was shot in the leg. Ronald “Banga” McPhatter, the Major Without a Deal rapper’s bodyguard, was killed. There was speculation that Ave killed McPhatter, especially after police matched a gun found in the van that transported him to the hospital to the murder weapon.