Little Rock Nightclub Shooting: Rapper's Bodyguard Charged As Shooter

LITTLE ROCK, AR — A bodyguard for Memphis, Tennessee-born rapper Ricky Hampton, aka Finese2Tymes, has been charged with 10 aggravated assaulted counts after police say he opened fire during a concert in Little Rock last month, a shooting that left 28 people hurt.

Kentrell Gwynn was charged Friday in the July 1 shooting at the Power Ultra Lounge where his boss, Hampton was performing.

Gwynn, 25, of also of Memphis, was previously jailed on federal firearms charges in the shooting, as well as one that happened June 25 outside a club in Forrest City, Arkansas. (For more information on this and other neighborhood stories, subscribe to Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

Gwynn has pleaded not guilty to the federal charges.

Hampton was indicted on federal weapons charges in the Forrest City shooting.

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