Hip Hop Artist Found Quilty Of Assault

Ms. Remy Smith, aka Remy Ma was accused of shooting Ms. Joseph on July 14 during a struggle over Ms. Joseph’s purse, after they celebrated the birthday of a mutual friend in a meatpacking district club. Ms. Smith had asked Ms. Joseph to hold her purse, and claimed that when she retrieved it, $3,000 in cash was missing.

As they were leaving, she pulled her Cadillac Escalade up to Ms. Joseph’s Nissan Maxima. Then she got into the Maxima with a cocked gun and tried to grab Ms. Joseph’s purse so she could search it for the cash, the prosecutor said.

During the struggle over the purse, Ms. Joseph, who denied taking money from Ms. Smith, was shot. Ms. Smith drove away, abandoning her $69,000 Cadillac nearby and getting into a taxi, the prosecutor said. The gun was never found.