Rapper Tory Lanez rushed to hospital after being stabbed in prison by fellow inmate

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Rapper Tory Lanez was hospitalized aft being stabbed Monday by a chap inmate astatine a California situation wherever he's serving a 10-year condemnation for shooting hip-hop prima Megan Thee Stallion successful the feet.

The Canadian rapper was attacked successful the gait of California Correctional Institution astatine Tehachapi soon earlier 7:30 a.m. and taken to a infirmary successful Kern County, according to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).

Neither his information nor the grade of his injuries was instantly known.

CDCR spokesperson Pedro Calderón Michel said situation unit instantly responded, called 911 and began aesculapian assistance connected Lanez.

The prison's investigative portion and the Kern County District Attorney's Office are investigating, helium said.

Authorities are moving to find a motive for the attack.

No further details were instantly available.

Photo of Tory Lanez released by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

In December 2022, Lanez, 32, whose existent sanction is Daystar Peterson, was convicted of 3 felonies: battle with a semiautomatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm successful a conveyance and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.

Megan, whose ineligible sanction is Megan Pete, testified during the proceedings that successful July 2020, aft they near a enactment astatine Kylie Jenner's Hollywood Hills home, Lanez fired the weapon astatine the backmost of her feet and shouted for her to creation arsenic she walked distant from an SUV successful which they had been riding.

FILE - Singer Tory Lanez returns to the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center for his trial, Dec. 13, 2022, successful Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

A justice rejected a question for a caller proceedings from Lanez's lawyers, who are appealing his conviction. They did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
Megan precocious alleged that Lanez was harassing her from situation done surrogates, and successful January a justice issued a protective bid done 2030 ordering him to halt immoderate specified harassment oregon immoderate different contact.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.