By ANDREW DALTON

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities mentioned Tuesday {that a} man who attacked rapper Tory Lanez in a California jail is an inmate serving a life sentence for second-degree homicide who was beforehand convicted for an in-prison assault with a lethal weapon.

Authorities didn’t specify how Lanez was attacked, however a message posted on the rapper’s Instagram account Monday night mentioned Lanez was stabbed 14 occasions and each his lungs collapsed.

Jail officers recognized the alleged attacker as Santino Casio, 42. He has been put in restricted housing pending an investigation by the jail and the Kern County District Lawyer’s Workplace.

Casio has been within the facility since 2004, after he was sentenced to life, with parole doable, for convictions of second-degree homicide and first-degree tried homicide. In 2008, he was sentenced to 6 extra years for assault by a prisoner with a lethal weapon, and in 2018 he was sentenced to 2 extra years for possession and manufacture of a lethal weapon by a prisoner.

The jail is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of Los Angeles within the mountains of the Mojave Desert and homes about 1,700 medium- and maximum-security inmates.

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 identify is Megan Pete, testified throughout the trial that in July 2020, after they left a celebration at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills residence, Lanez fired the gun in the back of her ft and shouted for her to bounce as she walked away from an SUV through which they’d been using.

She had bullet fragments in each ft that needed to be surgically eliminated. It wasn’t till months after the incident that she publicly recognized Lanez as the one that had fired the gun.

A decide rejected a movement for a brand new trial from Lanez’s attorneys, who’re interesting his conviction. They’d no quick remark after the assault.

Megan not too long ago alleged that Lanez was harassing her from jail by means of surrogates, and in January a decide issued a protecting order by means of 2030 ordering him to cease any such harassment or every other contact.

The 32-year-old Canadian Lanez started releasing mixtapes in 2009 and noticed a gentle rise in reputation, transferring on to main label albums, two of which reached the highest 10 on Billboard’s charts.

The Monday Instagram submit on Lanez’s standing mentioned he was “talking normally, in good spirits, and deeply thankful to God that he is pulling through.”

Initially Revealed: Could 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM EDT