Suge Knight was released from a Los Angeles hospital early Wednesday, Aug. 27, just three days after he was shot six times at a pre-VMAs party hosted by Chris Brown.
A representative for Knight told TMZ that the 49-year-old co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records left Cedars-Sinai Medical Center around 6:00 a.m., and doctors said that he would not need any rehab, just a few follow up visits.
"He went straight home and is going to heal up in a few days and be stronger than ever," Knight's friend Keith Middlebrook told New York Daily News Wednesday.
"I talked to him today. He's tough," added Middlebrook. "When he was shot, he walked out of the building. He's a pretty tough cat." Knight is working with Middlebrook as a consultant on "Don Makaveli," a Tupac Shakur biopic that the latter wrote and is producing.
Knight was one of the three club patrons struck by gunfire around 1:30 a.m. at 1Oak on West Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard Sunday, Aug. 24., said Sgt. C. Tatar, watch commander at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's West Hollywood station, according to The Associated Press.
Authorities were looking for several "people of interest" whose names or street monikers came from tips or witness interviews, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Lt. John Corina told New York Daily News. He added that investigators were "talking to and looking at" some persons affiliated with the rival Bloods and Crips street gangs and even other individuals without any gang ties.
Rapper-comedian Katt Williams, who was with Knight during the shooting, told TMZ that the music mogul stepped into harm's way to protect someone else.
But Corina told New York Daily News that they "have no doubt Suge Knight was the target," and not Brown or anyone else.
Investigators were still reviewing hours of surveillance video from multiple cameras inside 1Oak, added Corina.
In addition, the sheriff's department confirmed to Billboard that the case has been moved to its Homicide Bureau, meaning the incident is likely being investigated as an attempted murder.
