Overview

• Officers responded to reports of a nude man on Ventura Boulevard around 5:50 a.m., and the suspect was taken into custody after charging at them, according to the LAPD.
• Law enforcement sources identified the suspect as Montero Lamar Hill, known as Lil Nas X, and said he punched an officer twice in the face; officials reported no serious injuries.
• He was transported to a hospital for a possible overdose, released after a few hours, and then booked at the Valley Jail in Van Nuys on suspicion of misdemeanor obstructing an officer, police said.
• TMZ video shows the performer earlier around 4 a.m. walking in the street wearing only underwear and cowboy boots, speaking to onlookers and placing a traffic cone on his head.
• Authorities have not determined whether substances or a mental-health episode played a role, and the artist’s representatives have not publicly commented; recent context includes a wiped Instagram and an April hospitalization for partial facial paralysis.