LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Rapper Tory Lanez was hospitalized after reportedly being stabbed Monday by a fellow inmate 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.
The Canadian rapper was attacked within the yard of California Correctional Establishment at Tehachapi shortly earlier than 7:30 a.m. and brought to a hospital in Kern County, in keeping with the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).
Neither his situation nor the extent of his accidents was instantly identified.
CDCR spokesperson Pedro Calderón Michel mentioned jail employees instantly responded, referred to as 911 and commenced medical support on Lanez.
The jail’s investigative unit and the Kern County District Legal professional’s Workplace are investigating, he mentioned.
A motive for the assault was not instantly clear.
No additional particulars have been instantly out there.
Photograph of Tory Lanez launched by the California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
In December 2022, Lanez, 32, whose actual title is Daystar Peterson, 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 throughout the trial that in July 2020, after they left a celebration at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills dwelling, Lanez fired the gun behind her ft and shouted for her to bounce as she walked away from an SUV by which that they had been using.
FILE – Singer Tory Lanez returns to the Clara Shortridge Foltz Felony Justice Middle for his trial, Dec. 13, 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photograph/Damian Dovarganes)
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 via surrogates, and in January a choose issued a protecting order via 2030 ordering him to cease any such harassment or another contact.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
Copyright © 2025 KABC Tv, LLC. All rights reserved.
