Rapper from Little Rock club ordered held in separate case

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(AP) – The rapper who was performing at a Little Rock club
during a mass shooting this month has been ordered held pending a trial on an
unrelated weapons charge.Lawyers argued Monday whether Ricky Hampton was violent or whether gunplay
captured on video was part of an image he needed to project as the rapper
Finese2Tymes. A federal magistrate said there was “heavy evidence” that Hampton
is a danger to the community.

Hampton served time for robbery in Tennessee. After a shooting at Little Rock
on July 1, a grand jury accused him of illegally possessing a weapon at a club
in Forrest City.

No one has been charged in the Little Rock shooting, which injured 28.
Prosecutors say a slug from Hampton’s bodyguard’s gun matched one recovered from
the club.

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