A woman was arrested Sunday after allegedly firing several shots from a rifle at pop star Rihanna’s LA mansion, with one bullet piercing the home’s wall, a law enforcement source told the Post.
Authorities are now trying to determine a motive. A source told the Post that A$AP Rocky and Rihanna “don’t know much” and that they don’t know why this happened.
Photos from the scene showed yellow police tape outside the singer’s home. LAPD officers also closed the street near the star’s property.
Rihanna was home at the time of the shooting. The Los Angeles Police Department said officers responded to reports of gunfire around 1:21 p.m. and quickly took a female suspect into custody.
A source close to the family told the Post: “They are all doing well.” No one was injured, according to the LAPD.
A$AP Rocky was not home at the time of the shooting, a family source confirmed to the Post.
Police say the suspect fired between seven and nine rounds from an AR-15 style rifle. Four of the grenades hit the house. Investigators were seen examining an Airstream trailer parked in the driveway of the home according to NBCLA.
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LAPD radio said several shots were fired at the home from a vehicle parked across the street from the property’s gate. According to dispatch audio, the suspect then sped away in a white Tesla, heading south on Coldwater Canyon Drive.
As police searched for the Tesla, they relayed details over the radio: the suspect’s hair was in braids; she wore a cream-colored blouse; According to the Los Angeles Times, her car was dirty underneath.
The suspect was later apprehended and arrested in the parking lot of a Sherman Oaks shopping center about 30 minutes after the 911 call came in, the Times said. She is described as a 30-year-old woman by the LA Timesother outlets describe her as a woman in her thirties.
Some local residents heard the shots.
“I was just washing dishes in my house and I heard shots,” Isabel Thorne told the Post. “I was a little shocked. You know, we don’t hear things like that in this neighborhood.”
“It’s pretty quiet. It sounded like a loud bang. So we’re kind of shocked. I don’t know what to think. I just heard one shot,” Thorne said.
“It was very loud, and everything is echoing in this valley, so you can hear everything here. Even if someone is having a party, you can hear the music, you know, a gunshot. It’s not something you expect,” she said.
“We’re having a neighborhood call, so everyone started hearing the police scanners saying there were gunshots,” Thorne told the Post.
“There are always tour buses going up and down, so everyone here knows Rihanna lives there,” she continued. “No one should have to deal with fear in your own home. I see people going in and out, but it’s pretty quiet on the streets. You know, it’s just LA. Unfortunately, it’s become a normal thing.”
Another neighbor, Keith England, told the Post: “I didn’t see anything. I heard it. I was playing music in the middle of the afternoon, minding my own business, and then bam, bam, and it’s like a pretty unmistakable sound. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, like probably ten shots.”
“It’s just one of those things: It’s not a car backfiring, that’s not fireworks, it’s someone shooting a gun, as it turned out,” England said.
“I came running out, we both said, did you hear that? I said ‘hit the ground’ because you never know how close it is,” he continued.
“You know, you can always get hit by a… I didn’t think they shot at me, but you never know. And that was it. And it took quite a while for the police to get here.”
“Normally you wouldn’t expect drive-by shootings to happen in a place like this, but now they’re everywhere,” he continued.
“We knew who lived there and thought, hmm, I wonder if it had something to do with that, but it turned out it did,” England said.
“I really feel sorry for them because it seems like they can’t find peace. And so that was obviously a thought,” he said. “It was scary, but you know, I can’t imagine being in the house because you hear the bullets hitting and stuff like that, so yeah, that was scary and the police, I mean, they made that arrest pretty quickly.”
The singer reportedly lives in a colonial-style mansion with her partner, rapper A$AP Rocky. Rihanna and A$AP Rocky – share children RZA, 3, Riot Rose, 2, and 5-month-old Rocki Irish Mayers. It was not immediately clear if anyone else was in the home when the shots were fired.
LAPD said investigators from the Robbery-Homicide Division will handle the case.
In February 2025, A$AP Rocky, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, was found not guilty on two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm after he was accused of shooting his former friend and bandmate following a heated argument in 2021.
After a three-week trial, the jury acquitted Mayers, despite Los Angeles County prosecutors portraying him as a violent attacker who allegedly shot his childhood friend, rapper Terell Ephron, during an argument.
Rihanna purchased the $13.8 million mansion in 2021. The five-bedroom, seven-bathroom estate sits on 7,600 square feet in the same neighborhood as homes owned by the likes of Mariah Carey, Madonna and Paul McCartney.
This isn’t the first time the Grammy-winning superstar has been scared at home.
In 2018, a 27-year-old man broke into Rihanna’s Hollywood Hills residence after jumping a fence. This was reported by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
The alleged intruder – identified by prosecutors as Eduardo Leon – slipped into the property while the singer was away and camped out in the house for about 12 hours before he was eventually discovered by one of her assistants.
Leon later pleaded not guilty to stalking and was given a ten-year stay-away order, banning him from going near the pop icon.
Since welcoming her firstborn, Rihanna has admitted she “wouldn’t play” when it comes to her children, saying she took a page from Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice.
“She’ll crush you over those kids,” she said told Teen Vogue in 2022. “And that resonates with me a lot, because I feel like that’s the type of mom I’m going to be.”
Rihanna – whose real name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty – rose to fame in the early 2000s with hits such as Pon de Replay and Umbrella.
Since then, she has expanded beyond music, growing her success into a major business venture. Through her Fenty label, she has built a global brand spanning cosmetics, fashion and lingerie.
