The son of pop music star Cyndi Lauper was taken into police custody on Wednesday, February 7, after a 24-year-old victim was found shot in the leg in an apartment building in Harlem, New York.

Declyn “Dex” Lauper, the son of Cyndi Lauper and actor David Thornton, was arrested after police responded to a shooting on West 112th Street at around 7:15 p.m, ABC 7 NY reports. After a search for evidence, police located Declyn, 26, in possession of drugs and a loaded gun nearby.

Lauper’s son was not charged in the shooting, but he was charged with criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a controlled substance. The victim was charged with criminal possession of a weapon and is listed in stable condition at Mount Sinai Morningside.

Declyn’s latest arrest comes two years after he was arrested in a stolen Mercedes outside another rapper’s memorial, The New York Post reports. He admitted to disorderly conduct and was ordered to complete five days of community service and stay out of trouble for one year.

Once out of jail, he boasted to reporters about making music with his “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” hitmaking mom.

“Me and my mother have a couple of songs that we recorded,” he said.

Declyn is the only son of Lauper and Thornton who met on the set of the 1991 film Off and Running, People reports. They tied the knot in a few months later and welcomed Decyln in 1997.

Cyndia Lauper admitted to keeping her at-home life with Thornton and Declyn private and explained why they weren’t included in her 2023 documentary Let the Canary Sing.

“The documentary is my life and [director Alison Ellwood’s] work; it’s her interpretation of my work,” Lauper told Vanity Fair. “There were certain things I didn’t want to talk about, my husband and my son, because that was really private. The documentary is about my career, and let the canary sing.”

Declyn’s last Instagram post came four years ago and shows him in the studio with a drill rapper who’s calling out their “opps.”