TEHACHAPI, Calif. (AP) — Rapper Tory Lanez was hospitalized after an assault Monday at a California jail the place he’s serving a 10-year sentence for capturing hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion within the ft, authorities stated.
Lanez, whose authorized title is Daystar Peterson, was attacked at a housing unit on the California Correctional Establishment in Tehachapi, at about 7:20 a.m., Pedro Calderon Michel, spokesman for the state Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation, stated in an e mail.
Michel didn’t specify how Lanez was attacked, however a number of shops reported he was stabbed.
Employees instantly gave Lanez medical help and known as 911, and he was taken to an out of doors hospital, Michel stated. The jail’s investigative unit and the Kern County District Legal professional’s Workplace are investigating, he stated.
In December 2022, Lanez was convicted of three felonies: assault with a semiautomatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a car and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
Megan, whose authorized title is Megan Pete, testified throughout the trial that in July 2020, after they left a celebration at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills house, Lanez fired the gun behind her ft and shouted for her to bounce as she walked away from an SUV by which they’d been using.
A choose rejected a movement for a brand new trial from Lanez’s legal professionals, who’re interesting his conviction. They didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Megan not too long ago alleged that Lanez was harassing her from jail via surrogates, and in January a choose issued a protecting order via 2030 ordering him to cease any such harassment or another contact.