Tory Lanez Sues California Prison Over Stabbing

0:00On April 20, Torrey Lanez just filed a massive federal lawsuit against California prison officials demanding $100 million after, getting stabbed 16 times in a brutal attack. The rapper, real name Daystar Peterson, is serving a 10-year sentence for shooting Megan the Stallion in the feet back in 2020. This went down on May 12, 2025, at the California Correctional Institution, into Hatchaby, where an inmate used a homemade shank to. Hit his face, head, torso, and back, leaving him with collapsed lungs and permanent scars. He got airlifted to a hospital, put on a ventilator, then shipped to another spot, California men's colony. Peterson claims officials knowingly put him in a cell with this attacker, who had a long rap sheet of violence inside, ignoring all the rules on. Separating high-risk inmates. Word is, prison staff took their sweet time responding, letting the whole thing play out, which he calls straight up deliberate indifference to.

1:00Obvious danger. This spot was already on lockdown earlier that year, due to a spike in attacks on staff and inmates. On top of that, while he was laid up in the hospital, they seized his notebooks full of original lyrics worth big money, and he wants them back now. In a grievance letter, he points out his a-list status and says, staff been exploiting him, even hinting the stabbing might tie into stealing his. Intellectual property. His appeal on the original conviction got shot down last November, and corrections folks and commenting since its ongoing litigation, but this suit keeps his fight alive in the spotlight.