Suge Knight Shot Multiple Times at Chris Brown's Pre-VMAs Party

Three people were wounded
in a shooting at Chris Brown's pre-MTV Video
Music Awards party early Sunday, including
Marion "Suge" Knight, the Death Row Records
founder whose violent history includes being
shot at a VMAs pre-party in 2005.
Authorities were still seeking a suspect, and
declined to release additional information,
citing the ongoing investigation. Knight's family
confirmed that he was one of the victims in a
statement to Revolt TV's website, which added
that Knight was an invited guest of Brown's.
"The family of Suge Knight ask that you keep
Suge in your prayers and to stray away from
the negativity portrayed by the media," the
statement read. "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.”
The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department
confirmed to Mashable that three people were
shot at West Hollywood nightclub 1OAK around
1:30 a.m. Sunday, but did not disclose their
identities, saying only that they were two men,
ages 49 and 32, and a 19-year-old woman. They
were in stable condition at Cedars Sinai
hospital.
TMZ first reported that one of the people shot
was Knight, who is 49. It's unclear form whom
the gunshots were intended; other people in
attendance included Brown, Justin Bieber,
Tyson Beckford and Black Eyed Peas member
apl.de.ap.
The VMA pre-party circuit has been rough for
Knight, who was shot at a soiree hosted by
Kanye West in 2005. In that incident, at a
Miami nightclub, Knight was hit in the upper leg
when a shooter opened fire in a VIP room.
Knight co-founded Death Row Records in the
1991 alongside rappers The D.O.C., Dr. Dre and
Dick Griffey. The label boasted such talent as
Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tupac Shakur, MC
Hammer and other West Coast artists.
Perhaps the only thing more extensive than
Knight's influence on the West Coast rap scene
is his personal rap sheet. Knight was in the car
when Shakur was shot outside a Las Vegas
nightclub, and has long been suspected —
though never formally implicated — in the
deaths of Shakur and his East Coast rival Biggie
Smalls.
Knight has also served multiple prison terms
for a variety of unrelated violent arrests, and
been seriously injured several times.
He was in prison from 1997 to 2001 on a
probation violation, and went back in 2003
after striking a parking lot attendant. In 2008
he was knocked out in a fight outside a
Hollywood nightclub and hospitalized, but
refused to cooperate with the LAPD’s
investigation.
A few months later was arrested outside a Las
Vegas strip club where officers found him
assaulting his girlfriend and brandishing a knife;
he was arrested on drug charges that were
later dropped. He was implicated in a 2009
home-invasion robbery and was arrested for
drugs and traffic violations in Las Vegas in
2012.