Overview
- LAPD officers responded around 4:11 p.m. Friday to the 19600 block of Citrus Ridge Drive after a woman reported shots fired near the singer’s home.
- Jail records identify the suspect as 35-year-old Markeith Cungious, who was booked on assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm and vandalism and is held on $50,000 bail.
- Police say the man allegedly fired a CO2-style handgun after an argument, and he told officers the woman drove over his foot before he shot at her vehicle; in California, such CO2 devices are not treated as traditional firearms.
- Authorities emphasize the confrontation happened on the public street, not on the property, and Chris Brown posted that he had no connection to the incident.
- TMZ later reported the arrested man worked on Brown’s security detail and was fired after the incident, a claim not confirmed by LAPD and described as a developing report.