Club Shooting: Rapper Returning To Arkansas For Charges In Separate Shooting

BIRMINGHAM, AL — A rapper arrested in Alabama after a nightclub shooting that left more than two dozen people hurt is being returned to Arkansas to face charges in another shooting.

Ricky Hampton, 25, signed papers agreeing to return to Arkansas, court and jail records indicated. He left the county jail in Birmingham, Alabama, early Friday.

The Memphis, Tennessee performer, also known as Finese 2Tymes, was arrested in Birmingham on July 2 at a rap show held a day after the shooting in Arkansas. (For more local news, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

Records show Hampton is charged with crimes including aggravated assault in a shooting that occurred days before the Little Rock shooting.

The gunfire at Little Rock's Power Ultra Lounge left 28 people hurt while Hampton was performing. Authorities allege Hampton shot someone in the neck days before that shooting.

Photo credit: Jefferson County Sheriff via AP