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 toes, authorities stated.
Michel didn’t specify how Lanez was attacked, however a number of retailers reported he was stabbed.
Workers instantly gave Lanez medical help and referred to 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 identify is Megan Pete, testified through the trial that in July 2020, after they left a celebration at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills house, Lanez fired the gun behind her toes and shouted for her to bop as she walked away from an SUV wherein that they had been driving.
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 surrogates, and in January a choose issued a protecting order by 2030 ordering him to cease any such harassment or every other contact.
