Troy Ave who is out on $500k bail after being charged with attempted murder for a shooting before a T.I. concert, was almost assassinated on Christmas afternoon.
The 34-year-old Brooklyn performer, whose real name is Roland Collins, was sitting in a car on E. 91st St. and Linden Blvd. in East Flatbush at about 4:20 p.m., when an attacker came up to him and opened fire, sources said.
He was grazed in the head and shot in the arm, then took himself to Brookdale Hospital, about six blocks away, police sources said.
His bright red Maserati convertible remained on the crime scene, its doors ajar and blood covering the driver’s seat, hours after the shooting.
Collins and his girlfriend were stopped at a light when the gunman, who wore a hoodie, pulled down to obscure his face, started shooting through the driver’s side window, said his lawyer, John Stella.
“He looked to his left. He saw that the guy had a gun and was about to fire, and he started driving away,” Stella said. “He continued driving and he reached the point where he was bleeding pretty profusely, and apparently a good Samaritan drove him and his girl a couple of blocks the rest of the way to Brookdale.”
A bullet struck him in the shoulder, and remained lodged in his back, Stella said.
Might be time for Troy Ave to move from the area for awhile because it seems like someone wants him dead.