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Rick Ross’ son was pistol-whipped in Florida just weeks after his rapper dad was arrested on domestic violence charges, according to police.
William Roberts III, a football player at Bethune-Cookman University, was talking to a woman on the street in Daytona Beach around 9:40 p.m. on Oct. 11 when someone pulled up in a car, got out with a gun and shouted at Roberts, referencing his famous dad.
“I don’t car who your daddy is, I’ll kill you right here,” the suspect yelled, according to an arrest report.
The gunman didn’t open fire, but bashed Roberts III over the head with the tan-colored handgun, before racing off in his car, according to cops.
The rapper’s son later told police he believed that the suspect — identified by police as Don Roberts, 20 — had previously dated the woman he had been speaking to.
Roberts III reported the incident to police and pointed out the alleged assailant in a photo lineup, cops said.
Don Roberts was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. He was being held at the Volusia County Branch Jail on no bond.
Just days earlier on Oct. 1, Ross, 50, turned himself in to the Miami Beach Police Department where he was arrested for allegedly attacking his girlfriend over an Instagram photo, Page Six reported.
Ross, who was born William Leonard Roberts II, was hit with a third-degree felony charge of battery by strangulation and a first-degree misdemeanor charge of battery by intentionally touching, striking or causing bodily harm to another person against their will, according t
The “Hustlin'” rapper is due to appear in court on Oct. 22.