Los Angeles – The authorities said Tuesday that A man who attacked rapper Tory Lanez In a prison in California there is an inmate that is serving life imprisonment for second -degree murder that was previously sentenced by an assault in prison with a mortal weapon.
Lanez was in fair conditions one day after the attack in a housing unit in the Correctional Institution of California in Tehachapi, where he is Fulfilling a sentence of 10 years for shots Hip-hop star Megan the stallion At the feet, Pedro Calderon Michel, spokesman for the State’s Corrections and Rehabilitation Department, said in an email.
The authorities did not specify how Lanez was attacked, but a message posted on the mast’s Instagram account on Monday night said Lanez was stabbed 14 times and his two lungs collapsed.
Prison officials identified the alleged attacker as Santino Casio, 42. He has been put in a restricted home waiting for an investigation by the prison and the Kern County District Prosecutor’s Office.
Casio has been in the installation since 2004, after he was sentenced to life imprisonment, with the possible probation, for second degree murder convictions and attempted first degree murder. In 2008, he was sentenced to six more years for assault by a prisoner with a mortal weapon, and in 2018 he was sentenced to two more years for possession and manufacture of a deadly weapon by a prisoner.
An email that seeks comment sent to a lawyer who previously represented Casio was not responded immediately.
The prison is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of Los Angeles in the Mojave desert mountains and houses about 1,700 medium and maximum security inmates.
In December 2022, Lanez was convicted of three serious crimes: assault with semi -automatic firearm; Have a loaded firearm and not registered in a vehicle and download a firearm with serious negligence.
Megan, whose legal name is Megan Pete, testified During the trial that in July 2020, after leaving a party at the Hollywood Hills house of Kylie Jenner, Lanez fired the weapon on the back of his feet and shouted to dance while moving away from a SUV in which they had been riding.
She had Bullet fragments on both feet that had to be surgically eliminated. It was not until months after the incident that she publicly identified LANSnez as the person who had fired the weapon.
A judge rejected a motion for a new trial of Lanez’s lawyers, who appeal their conviction. They had no immediate comments after the attack.
Megan recently claimed that Lanez was harassing She from the prison through substitutes, and in January a judge issued a Protection order Until 2030, ordering him to stop any harassment or any other contact.
Canadian Lanez, 32, began launching Mixtapes in 2009 and saw a constant increase in popularity, moving to the main stamps albums, two of which reached the 10 best on Billboard lists.
Instagram’s Monday publication about Lanez’s state said he was “speaking normally, in a good mood, and deeply grateful to God who is going through.”
