Tory Lanez must be airlifted to the hospital after being stabbed by another inmate in a California prison this week, his father said Wednesday.
Lannis' father, Sonstar Peterson, said in a press conference that the rapper had been stabbed more than a dozen times in his torso, weapon and head and was taken to a nearby medical facility when he called to escalate an emergency.
"I'm bleeding here," Peterson said. His father said Lannis's lungs had collapsed, but he didn't know.
"He only knew he couldn't breathe. He could barely speak. The officer turned around and looked at him and said, 'No, we have to take him.
"The hospital report is that he is doing very well," Peterson said Wednesday, explaining that the doctors had moved the tube to his son's lungs. “He is recovering.”
According to prison officials, the man suspected of stabbing Lannis was a prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment for second-degree murder. Officials said the suspect, identified as 42-year-old Santino Casio, was previously convicted of using a deadly weapon while in custody. The attack was allegedly at about 7:20 a.m. Monday at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachabe, about a hundred miles north of Los Angeles. According to officials, Casio has been placed before the investigation by prison officials and Kern County District Attorney’s Office. The motivation for the attack is not yet known.
Lanez was sentenced to 10 years in prison in December 2022 at the gun of Megan Thee in a roadside confrontation with alcohol fuel on July 12, 2020. Megan gave three hours of agonizing testimony at the trial, recalling Peterson’s three hours, and she recalling Peterson’s yelling “dance bitch.” The chief resident of orthopedic surgery at Cedars Sinai Medical Center led the juror through an X-ray that showed the wound on Megan's foot. He said the doctor identified four metal bullet fragments embedded in her feet and removed what might have been during the emergency surgery. A man witnessing the shooting testified that he saw a "very excited" man "fired fire everywhere."
Lannis' representatives said Wednesday they were still working to overturn the rapper's conviction. His legal team claims they have a new witness, and he has advanced, saying Meghan's former best friend, Kelsey Harris, is the shooter. New witnesses allegedly said Harris claimed in front of him that she fired three shots in person.
During the trial, Harris testified that she was present on the morning of the shooting. In an 80-minute record statement to the prosecutor who played in court, she vividly recalls Peterson firing five shots and Megan was injured on the ground.
Once she was in the witness stand, under a prosecutor's subpoena, Harris invoked her Fifth Amendment, against self-crimes and demanded the avoidance of the blanket immunity. The prosecutor agreed to give her "use of immunity", which means her swearing testimony will not be used against her in future proceedings, but there is still other evidence to charge her.
In the witness stand, Harris rejected a key aspect of the statement she recorded, claiming she didn't see Peterson fire and that she operated under "assumption" when she sent three lines of text to Meghan's bodyguard five minutes after shooting: "Help/Conservative Shoot Meg/911."
Harris refused to suggest Lannis' live testimony, but she said his defense claimed he was a shooter, which was "ridiculous". She said she, Megan and Lannis did drive from a pool party at Kylie Jenner’s house when Lannis sparked a verbal dispute. But her insistence that the subsequent alienation of Meghan was not based on the battle. She said this was due to her belief that no one defended her defense in the online allegations of her shooting.
Harris's representative did not return immediately Rolling stonesMake a request for comment.
Megan said in her own testimony that she had undergone general anesthesia at a Los Angeles hospital within a restriction of Covid Hospital. When the stitches on her feet woke up, she couldn't walk.
When Meghan was still in the hospital, Lannis texted her, “Meg, I know you never talk to me again, but I really hope you know I’m from the bottom of my heart.