Los Angeles prosecutors said Monday they will not file charges against Atlanta hip-hop artist Killer Mike in an alleged altercation at the Grammy Awards in February.
In a statement, the L.A. City Attorney’s Office indicated the artist, whose real name is Michael Render, had “successfully completed the Office’s Hearing process, including a community service requirement that was imposed.”
Earlier on Monday, Killer Mike’s legal counsel, Michael A. Goldstein, said in a statement that “criminal charges were not warranted.”
“Mike has been cleared,” he said.
The artist, 49, blamed the Feb. 4 incident at Crypto.com Arena on an “over-zealous security guard” and “some confusion around which door my team and I should enter,” he said in a statement a few days later.
One of multiple law enforcement sources who spoke on the matter at the time alleged the rapper pushed and elbowed the unidentified event worker as she tried to direct him to a security checkpoint.
The woman, who was checked out by medical personnel, made a citizen’s arrest, which led officers to book Killer Mike on suspicion of battery, multiple law enforcement sources had said.
The artist, a hip-hop intellectual and champion of Atlanta’s pop culture renaissance, won best rap performance, best rap song and best rap album — all for last year’s “Michael,” his sixth long-player.
Late Sunday night, the Run the Jewels member accepted another honor for “Michael,” the album of the year trophy at the BET Awards.
Dennis Romero contributed.