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The rapper Tory Lanez, who is serving a 10-year situation sentence complete nan shooting of chap hip-hop creator Megan Thee Stallion, has revenge a national suit against California corrections officials, seeking $100m aft being stabbed successful prison.
Lanez, whose sanction is Daystar Peterson, said successful tribunal papers that a chap inmate astatine California correctional institution successful Tehachapi stabbed him astir 16 times connected 12 May 2025 utilizing a “home-made” shank. Peterson said he suffered stab wounds to his face, head, torso and back, resulting successful “permanent scarring, on pinch 2 collapsed lungs”.
Peterson was airlifted to a hospital, wherever he was put connected a ventilator, according to nan suit. After Peterson was discharged from hospital, he was transferred to California Men’s Colony, a different authorities prison.
Peterson said California situation officials “knowingly” housed him pinch nan captive who attacked him successful contravention of correction protocols for lodging and separating inmates according to consequence factors.
Peterson alleged successful nan suit that because of nan inmate’s criminal history and acts of unit down bars, “the prime to location him alongside Peterson should person been a known danger”.
Peterson besides alleged that situation unit were not coming correct distant and that “it is chartless why consequence was delayed, allowing afloat attack”. He claimed that grounds shows “deliberate indifference to foreseeable violence”.
The California correctional institution was among respective California prisons wherever immoderate high-security sections were placed temporarily connected a program restricting activity “in consequence to a surge successful unit against unit and incarcerated persons” successful March 2025, according to nan California section of corrections and rehabilitation.
Peterson besides said situation officials illegally seized books of original, unpublished lyrics “with important commercialized value” while he was astatine hospital. His suit is besides demanding nan “immediate” return of Peterson’s opus books.
In a June 2025 grievance missive Peterson submitted to situation authorities that was revenge alongside his lawsuit, he claimed unit “have perpetually utilized various strategies to utilization me”.
“It should besides beryllium noted that I americium an A-list celebrity. It should besides beryllium noted that my lawsuit is simply a nationalist liking lawsuit that involves different personage of A-list status,” Peterson wrote.
“The effort of assassination connected my life could very easy … been a crippled to bargain my intelligence spot which is and has been proven to beryllium worthy millions of dollars,” he besides claimed connected a grievance form.
Peterson successful December 2022 was found guilty of 3 felonies for shooting Megan Thee Stallion successful nan feet much than 2 years prior. The charges – battle pinch a semi-automatic firearm, having a loaded, unregistered firearm successful a vehicle, and discharging a firearm pinch gross negligence – could person resulted successful a maximum 22-year situation sentence.
Megan Thee Stallion, ineligible sanction Megan Pete, told jurors that Peterson changeable astatine nan backmost of her feet pinch a handgun and yelled astatine her to creation arsenic she walked distant from a conveyance they were in, pursuing a statement astatine Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills house. Pete had to acquisition room to extract slug fragments from her feet.
A California tribunal rejected Peterson’s entreaty successful November, according to nan Associated Press. Peterson’s civilian lawyer did not instantly respond to nan Guardian’s petition for comment.
The California section of corrections and rehabilitation said successful an email: “CDCR does not remark connected pending litigation.”
TMZ first reported connected nan lawsuit, AP said.
