Overview

• On May 12, inmate Santino Casio ambushed Lanez at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, stabbing him 14 times in an attack captured on surveillance video.
• Lanez suffered multiple wounds, including seven to his back and two to his head, experienced collapsed lungs, and is now housed in restricted housing while he recovers.
• His legal team has released new audio and video evidence claiming that Kelsey Harris, not Lanez, fired the shots that injured Megan Thee Stallion and is petitioning Governor Newsom for a pardon.
• Megan Thee Stallion has publicly rejected the new narrative, insisting that Lanez was the shooter and calling him a “demon.”
• Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna and rapper Drake have called on Governor Newsom to grant Lanez a pardon, intensifying debate over prison safety and high-profile violence against women.