Safe Emptied, SUVs Bullet-Punched: Rod Wave Arrested in Milton Home Shooting

Rodarius “Rod Wave” Green, 26, is shown after surrendering on May 20 to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office on charges that he fired 14 rounds inside a Milton home.

Deputies arriving at an upscale Milton home on April 21 were met by a scene of luxury SUVs marked by bullet holes and a safe that appeared to have been forcibly moved across a basement floor. The incident allegedly involved rapper Rodarius “Rod Wave” Green, 26, who is accused of opening fire during a dispute over property reportedly stolen in a prior burglary.

Green voluntarily surrendered to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday and posted a $50,000 bond later that day. Court records unsealed in Superior Court charge him with 14 counts — including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, pointing a pistol at another, criminal damage to property, tampering with evidence and obstruction of law enforcement — after he allegedly fired 14 rounds indoors.

According to the affidavit, deputies found 11 bullets in an associate’s 2025 Mercedes-Benz G-Class, one in Green’s 2022 Rolls-Royce Cullinan, one lodged in a basement wall and one missing. “In the basement, we found a large safe that had been dragged across the floor, opened and emptied,” an officer wrote.

“There is no truth to these charges,” attorneys Drew Findling and Marissa Goldberg said in a joint statement. “Rod Green was a victim of a burglary and committed no crimes. How he was even charged as a result of this situation is incomprehensible. This will absolutely be resolved favorably to Mr. Green.”

Green first broke through in 2019 when “Heart on Ice” went viral on TikTok and climbed the Billboard Hot 100, establishing his confessional style in hip-hop. He has since released four albums that reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart—"SoulFly," "Beautiful Mind,"  "Nostalgia," and "Last Lap" —and earned numerous RIAA-certified platinum singles.

Despite this arrest, Green remains musically active: he contributed the title track “Sinners” to the soundtrack of the Michael B. Jordan film Sinners , and his sixth studio album, “Last Lap,” debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in October.

His legal history includes a weapons arrest in Manatee County, Fla., in April 2024, which was dropped after authorities acknowledged an error , and a 2022 battery charge that was dismissed for lack of prosecutorial merit.

The investigation by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office is ongoing.