Rapper Suge Knight was
interrogated by police after being named a suspect in a hit-and-run that killed
a man in southern Los Angeles.
Two men were hit by a red truck belonging to Knight in the car park of a fast-food restaurant in Compton after an argument apparently broke out.
Two men were hit by a red truck belonging to Knight in the car park of a fast-food restaurant in Compton after an argument apparently broke out.
A 55-year-old man died in
hospital and a 51-year-old man was injured.
Lt John Corina of Los
Angeles County Sheriff's office said: "As they were arguing, the driver of
the red pickup truck ends up running over a couple people in the parking lot
over here. And then taking off.
"We know, as
everyone's been reporting, that it was Suge Knight that was involved in this.
"So far, we have not
confirmed it was him driving the truck."
However, Knight's attorney
James Blatt said the Death Row Records founder "was in the process of
being physically assaulted by two men and in an effort to escape he
unfortunately hit two (other) individuals."
The lawyer added: "He
was in his car trying to escape."
Mr Blatt said he was "confident
that once the investigation is completed, he will be totally exonerated".
Knight later arrived at a
police station in West Hollywood to meet officers.
Celebrity news website TMZ
reported Knight had got into a fight with two men on the set of a film project
- also starring Ice Cube and Dr Dre.
Los Angeles County
sheriff's Lt John Corina said the collision was being investigated as a
homicide.
"Looks like he drove
backwards and struck the victims and drove forwards and struck them
again," Lt Corina said.
"The people we've
talked to say it looked like it was an intentional act. So we're handling it as
a homicide."
The empty truck was found
in a car park in West Los Angeles some hours later.
Death Row Records, which
Knight launched with Dr Dre in the early 1990s, helped launch stars such as
Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur.
However, the label
collapsed in 1996 when Knight was jailed for probation violations.
He ended up in jail again,
this time for 10 months, in 2003, after allegedly getting into a fight outside
a Hollywood nightclub.
Last August, he was shot
six times inside a Los Angeles nightclub.
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