Nationwide — Tory Lanez has filed a $100 million lawsuit in opposition to the California jail system after a violent stabbing inside Tehachapi jail. He claims officers failed to guard him and housed him with a harmful inmate.
In line with ABC Information, Lanez, whose authorized identify is Daystar Peterson, filed the federal case in opposition to the California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the jail warden, and correctional officers. He alleges employees ignored recognized security dangers earlier than the assault happened.
The lawsuit says an inmate attacked Lanez with a home made shank and stabbed him 16 instances. The accidents affected his again, torso, head, and face, and he suffered a collapsed lung that required an emergency airlift to a hospital.
Authorities recognized the attacker as Santino Casio, an inmate serving life sentences for homicide and tried homicide. Information additionally present Casio had prior convictions for assaulting inmates and manufacturing weapons whereas in jail.
Lanez argues jail officers knew or ought to have recognized Casio posed a critical menace. The submitting additionally claims officers responded too slowly in the course of the assault and failed to make use of stronger measures to cease the violence.
The lawsuit states Lanez was later moved to the California Males’s Colony in San Luis Obispo County. It additionally alleges that jail employees confiscated his handwritten songbooks containing unreleased lyrics and refused to return them.
Lanez is at present serving a 10-year sentence after being convicted in 2022 for taking pictures Megan Thee Stallion within the ft throughout a 2020 incident in Los Angeles. A courtroom denied his attraction in 2025, holding the conviction in place.
