TEHACHAPI, Calif. (AP) — Rapper Tory Lanez was hospitalized after an assault Monday at a California jail the place he is serving a 10-year sentence for taking pictures hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion within the ft, authorities mentioned.
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, mentioned in an e mail.
Michel didn’t specify how Lanez was attacked, however a number of retailers reported he was stabbed.
Workers instantly gave Lanez medical help and known as 911, and he was taken to an out of doors hospital, Michel mentioned. The jail’s investigative unit and the Kern County District Lawyer’s Workplace are investigating, he mentioned.
In December 2022, Lanez was convicted of three felonies: assault with a semiautomatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a automobile and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
Megan, whose authorized title is Megan Pete, testified in the course of the trial that in July 2020, after they left a celebration at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills dwelling, Lanez fired the gun in the back of her ft and shouted for her to bop 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 attorneys, who’re interesting his conviction. They didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Megan just lately alleged that Lanez was harassing her from jail by means of surrogates, and in January a choose issued a protecting order by means of 2030 ordering him to cease any such harassment or some other contact.
