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  • Suge Knight the Apparent Target of Shooting at Chris Brown’s Pre-VMA Party

    Marion “Suge” Knight, rapper and a founder of Death Row Records, and two others were shot Sunday at a pre-MTV VMA party hosted by singer Chris Brown. Knight is reported to be the intended target of the shooting, according to West Hollywood homicide officials.

    The incident occurred at 1:30 a.m. Sunday at the 1OAK on West Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard. A suspect in the shooting escaped as the crowds ran screaming from the packed night club.

    Knight, 49, who reportedly walked from the night club with several bullet wounds before he was helped into a sheriff’s cruiser and finally taken from the scene by paramedics, underwent emergency surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. A trail of blood remains where Knight walked from the club to the sheriff’s cruiser.

    A 32-year-old man and 19-year-old woman were also wounded during the shooting and are being treated at a Los Angeles hospital.

    “They were transported to local hospitals and they are expected to recover,” said Deputy Crystal Hernandez of the Sheriff’s Headquarters Bureau.

    Knight, who has had many run-ins with the law, was the apparent target of the shooting, said Lt. John Corina of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau, after reviewing video footage inside the night club.

    “Video shows the suspect with a handgun firing at Knight and striking the two other victims who were in his vicinity,” Corina said. ”After the shooting people who were in the club started running for the exits along with the suspect.”

    Sunday’s shooting may be associated with gang rivalry and Knight’s connections with Compton’s Bloods gang, say sources in law enforcement. Other sources said several known members of the Bloods gang were at the party at the time of the shooting.

    Several partygoers posted on Twitter and Instagram video clips of the event, in which shots can be heard and revelers seen ducking before heading for the doors.

    Following the shooting, Brown was quickly surrounded by his security people.

    “This was just a regular night of fun on the Sunset Strip, and it was disrupted by criminals,” said West Hollywood Mayor John D’Amico. “Hopefully the Sheriff’s Department will find out who the person or persons were and prosecute them to the full extent of the law.”

    Knight’s family called on fans to pray for the music mogul.

    “The family of Suge Knight asks that you keep Suge in your prayers and to stray away from the negativity portrayed by the media,” Knight’s family said in a statement to Revolt. “Suge is currently resting and has lost a lot of blood; he’s human. He’s done a lot of things for the community and the culture as a whole so we ask that you respect that.”

  • Suge Knight Stopped by Cops, Guns Drawn

    Suge Knight Stopped by Cops, Guns Drawn

    Embattled hip hop mogul Suge Knight was stopped by cops with their guns drawn on him in L.A. on Friday afternoon, in what wound up being a case of mistaken identity. The L.A.P.D. had received a report of an assault, with the assailant matching Suge Knight’s description.

    Knight accompanied the cops back to the police station, where everyone verified he was not, in fact, the man they were looking for. The police now say the initial report may have been a bogus one. Knight isn’t happy about what happened, and is now considering filing a lawsuit against the L.A.P.D. over what they are calling a misunderstanding.

    Suge Knight spoke recently about the 20-year anniversary of Snoop Dogg’s debut album, Doggystyle. In a rare interview with Rolling Stone magazine, he recalled some of the tensions that surrounded both Snoop Dogg and the record’s release.

    “Snoop is an artist that is a great artist. So it’s good to give him his props about how great Doggystyle was. What made Doggystyle historic is the work on it,” he said. “If you look at the album cover, everybody sued us and said it was degrading women. But even the guys who did the artwork, who wrote songs, who participated in videos, they were guys who were either wearing red or wearing blue. . . and it was a situation where they all got along. We’d go places and you might see twenty blue rags and twenty red rags. And that was never before seen.”

    Just three days ago, Suge was quoted in an interview for HipHop DX, discussing the influences of West Coast rap. He mentioned Kris Kross, Da Brat, 50 Cent, and the late Notorious B.I.G., and said how much their sounds were all influenced by it.

    Suge Knight is popping up just about everywhere lately–in magazines and online interviews. He likely didn’t expect to pop up having his picture taken as he leaned on a car, being frisked by cops–all while many of those cops pointed guns at him, however. That’s one scenario he definitely doesn’t want replayed–and it sounds like he might even plan to do something about it.

    It didn’t take long for Twitter followers to chime in.

    Do you think Suge Knight was really stopped in a case of mistaken identity or was he stopped for his past arrests–or perhaps even his association with the people he has worked with since Death Row Records began?

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