Tory Lanez has reportedly been stabbed in prison as he has been rushed to get medical attention. The musician is said to have been in the yard of California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi on Monday morning when another inmate stabbed him.
Reports say he was rushed to the nearby hospital in Bakersfield. The R&B singer, 32, is currently serving a 10-year sentence for the 2020 shooting of rap sensation Megan Thee Stallion, 30.
It is not yet known the motivation behind the stabbing, according to TMZ. The alleged incident comes after Lanez took to social media last week.
He showed himself looking buff and teased he would be releasing a new album soon. In December 2024, Megan filed for a restraining order asking courts to keep Lanez from perpetuating alleged ‘psychological warfare’ against her.
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His legal team pushed back at the allegations. Yet, in January Megan was granted a five-year restraining order by the judge.
In court, Megan said: “It just seems like I have to relive it every day. The person who shot me won’t let me forget it… I feel like maybe he’ll shoot me again, and maybe this time I won’t make it.”
In December of 2022, Tory was found guilty of three felonies regarding the shooting. On 12 July 2020, after leaving a pool party at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills home, Lanez – real name Daystar Shemuel Shua Peterson – and Megan were heading to their rental home in a black SUV driven by Tory’s security guard.
An argument broke out causing the security guard to pull over. Megan exited the car and, according to the prosecution, Lanez pulled out a handgun and shot at her feet.
She was left wounded and with bullet fragments in her feet. A month later Megan took to Instagram Live to publically call out Lanez for shooting her.
Lanez maintained his innocence, saying that Kelsey Harris, who was also in the car with them, was the one who shot her. He claimed that Megan’s management team has been trying to frame him.
At the trial, Megan said: “I don’t want to be on this Earth. I wish he would have shot and killed me if I knew I would go through this torture.”
After months of denying being in a romantic relationship with Lanez, Megan testified that the two had a relationship after bonding over losing their mothers.
She shared that she denied this because she was disgusted she “shared her body with someone who would shoot her.”
The jury convicted Lanez of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, having a loaded and unregistered firearm in a vehicle, and discharging the firearm with gross negligence.
After the verdict came in, the LA District Attorney said the high-profile nature of the case helped bring attention to the issue of violence against women.
Prosecutor George Gascón said: “The fact that she is a successful entertainer has brought an important spotlight on the issue of violence against women.”
The Mirror has approached California Correctional Institution and the US Office of Justice for comment.
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