Rapper Tory Lanez is hospitalized after being stabbed in a California prison

Tory Lanez, pictured performing successful 2019, was stabbed successful the California situation wherever helium is serving clip aft being convicted of shooting Megan Thee Stallion successful the feet. Scott Roth/Invision/AP hide caption

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Tory Lanez was hospitalized connected Monday aft being stabbed astatine the California situation wherever helium is serving 10 years for shooting chap instrumentalist Megan Thee Stallion.

The Canadian rapper, whose ineligible sanction is Daystar Peterson, is successful just information aft helium was allegedly attacked by different inmate astatine a lodging portion astatine the California Correctional Institution successful Tehachapi astir 7:20 a.m. section time, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The suspected attacker, identified arsenic Santino Casio, has been placed successful restricted lodging pending an investigation, CDCR said.

A connection posted to Lanez's authoritative Instagram account that nighttime said helium was stabbed 14 times, "including 7 wounds to his back, 4 to his torso, 2 to the backmost of his head, and 1 to the near broadside of his face." It said some of his lungs had collapsed, but his information was improving.

"He is present breathing connected his own," it reads. "Despite being successful pain, helium is talking normally, successful bully spirits, and profoundly thankful to God that helium is pulling through."

Details astir the onslaught stay scarce. CDCR officials said the prison's investigative portion and Kern County District Attorney's Office are investigating. NPR has reached retired to the DA's bureau for much information.

Why is Lanez successful prison? A refresher connected the case 

Lanez was sentenced to 10 years in situation successful August 2023 aft a divisive and high-drama trial that ended with his condemnation connected 3 felony charges: battle with a semi-automatic firearm, possession of a concealed, unregistered firearm, and negligent discharge of a firearm.

The charges stem from an incidental that happened aboriginal 1 greeting successful July 2020 arsenic Lanez and Megan Thee Stallion near a excavation enactment successful Los Angeles. Stallion, whose ineligible sanction is Megan Pete, accused Lanez of shooting her successful some feet arsenic she got retired of their conveyance aft an argument.

Stallion said successful a since-deleted Instagram station a fewer days aboriginal that she had suffered gunshot wounds that night, but did not place Lanez arsenic the perpetrator until the pursuing month. Lanez — who pleaded not blameworthy astatine proceedings — past released an album with lyrics maintaining his innocence and casting uncertainty connected Stallion's claims.

That October, the Los Angeles County territory attorney's bureau charged Lanez with felony battle with a semiautomatic firearm, and a justice issued a protective bid to support him astatine slightest 100 yards distant from Stallion. He violated the bid the pursuing summer.

The rappers continued to spar successful public, referring to the incidental successful opus lyrics. Meanwhile, media personalities, different high-profile rappers and fans of some artists formed uncertainty connected the other's mentation of events, with galore scrutinizing and blaming Stallion.

Lanez's December 2022 proceedings divided the hip-hop assemblage and the internet, raising broader issues similar the mistreatment of Black women successful some the manufacture and the transgression justness system. Stallion testified during the trial that the shooting — and ensuing backlash — had wounded her carnal and intelligence health, and she feared it would harm her vocation too.

"I can't clasp conversations with radical for a agelong time. I don't consciousness similar I privation to beryllium connected this earth," she said. "I privation helium would person conscionable changeable and killed me, if I knew I would person to spell done this torture."

Lanez is appealing his sentence but was denied enslaved successful the meantime.

His ineligible troubles continued down bars

Stallion alleges that Lanez has harassed her from situation done surrogates, resulting successful an hold of the restraining bid against him.

In a petition filed successful Los Angeles Superior Court successful December, her ineligible squad wrote that helium "continues to taxable her to repeated trauma and victimization," according to the Associated Press.

"Even now, portion down bars, Mr. Peterson shows nary signs of stopping," reads the petition, which the AP obtained.

It reports that the petition says situation logs from Lanez amusement helium was utilizing 3rd parties — including 1 circumstantial blogger — to harass Stallion online by making mendacious claims specified arsenic that the weapon and slug successful the lawsuit are missing.

Lanez's lawyer wrote successful a tribunal filing that the 2 had not been successful nonstop contact, saying his client's incarceration means determination is "no longer immoderate signifier of existent oregon aboriginal threat" to Stallion.

A justice granted Stallion's request successful January for a restraining bid done 2030.