LOS ANGELES — Sheriff’s deputies booked former hip-hop music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight on suspicion of murder Friday after they said he hit and killed a man with his pickup truck, seriously injured another and then fled.
Knight’s attorney said he was an innocent victim who accidentally ran over his friend as he tried to escape a group of attacking thugs.
The incident was the latest in a long line of brushes with death and the law for the 49-year-old founder of Death Row Records, one of the genre’s leading labels.
Knight argued with a man at a location where cast and crew were filming a promotional video for the biopic “Straight Outta Compton,” about the rise of the legendary group N.W.A., according to authorities. Security guards asked Knight to leave, and the argument escalated a short while later at a fast-food restaurant about three miles away, ending with Knight striking the men and taking off.
Terry Carter, 55, who was a friend of Knight’s and not involved in the altercation, died at a hospital, said sheriff’s Lt. John Corina. A 51-year-old man was injured.
