Rapper Tory Lanez was hospitalized after an attack by another inmate Monday at a California prison where he is serving a 10-year sentence for shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in the feet, authorities said.
Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, was attacked at a housing unit at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, at about 7:20 a.m., the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in an email. Tehachapi is about 100 miles north of Los Angeles in Kern County.
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The statement did not indicate how Lanez was attacked, but TMZ , citing sources, reported that he was stabbed.
Staff members immediately provided medical aid and called 911, the department said. He was hospitalized,