According to the Associated Press, Suge Knight, who is the founder and CEO of Black Kapital and co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records, was involved in a fatal accident and fled the scene on Thursday.
Knight, whose real name is Marion Hugh Knight, Jr., was allegedly behind the wheel of a vehicle that struck and killed a man and injured another around 3 PM in the parking lot of restaurant in Compton.
Knight, who was accompanied by his attorney James Blatt, turned himself in at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in West Hollywood around 1 a.m. today to be questioned as a person of interest. according to the Los Angeles Times.
[T]he tragedy stemmed from an altercation that occurred on the set of the forthcoming film "Straight Outta Compton," a biopic about the rap group NWA. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Capt. John Corina said that the two men Knight argued with went to a nearby restaurant about 20 minutes after the confrontation.
Corina alleged Knight followed the men there in a red truck and ran them over in the parking lot. Witnesses told the paper the truck hit the men, then backed over them before fleeing the scene. The incident is being investigated as a homicide. (SOURCE)
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