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Hip-hop mogul Suge Knight shot at Chris Brown's party

Hip-hop music mogul Suge Knight was among three people shot and injured early on Sunday morning at a nightclub in West Hollywood, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.

"We can confirm that the person known as Suge Knight has been identified as one of several victims in a shooting in West Hollywood," a spokesman for the department told Reuters.

Knight, 49, and another man, aged 32, and a woman, 19, were wounded, transported to local hospitals and expected to recover, the department said in a statement.

TMZ entertainment news website reported that Knight was leaving a pre-MTV Video Music Awards party at the 1OAK club on Sunset Strip hosted by VMA nominee Chris Brown. 

He was in intensive care after undergoing surgery at Cedars-Sinai Hospital. TMZ said he had multiple bullet wounds.

Chris Brown later tweeted about the shooting in anger.

 

Photos: TMZ/YouTube, Chris Brown/Twitter

TMZ reported that the shooting might have been gang related as eyewitnesses say Brown was making gang gestures in the club.

An MTV spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Knight, whose real name is Marion, co-founded Death Row Records, a label that produced major rap hits in the early 1990s from artists such as Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.

Sources: TMZ, Hollywood Life, Reuters

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