‘I guess he was trying to help Suge’: the don, the peacemaker and the punches from a gang affiliateįollowing the filming of the commercial at the historic barbershop Holiday Styles, the Straight Outta Compton crew broke for lunch on Thursday afternoon and headed back to their trailers on Compton’s east side on Bullis Road. “Terry was coming up in the lot, the car hits him, knocks him down, and it just rolls over him – the tire ran over his head,” said the on-set source, offering the most detailed public account of the episode yet in two interviews over the weekend but also requesting anonymity due to the ongoing nature of the police investigation. But according to multiple people with intimate knowledge of the situation, the latest high-profile episode in hip-hop lore may have been an accident: Knight, apparently in the midst of being attacked by a third man in a hamburger-joint parking lot but too weak to fight back, attempted to flee the scene, not only hitting his aggressor but running over Carter – his friend – in the process. It sounds like yet another sordid chapter in Knight’s life, where gangland violence and entertainment-industry egos have intersected with unexpected consequences. On Monday, the department revoked more than $2m bail, saying he was considered a flight risk. The Los Angeles county sheriff’s department said it was reviewing video evidence and interviewing people who told them the death “looked like it was an intentional act”. Suge Knight was facing 30 years in jail for murder, as his longtime lawyer called everything an accident. The confusing, high-profile and ultimately deadly incident that ensued was anything but peaceful: Terry Carter, a record label owner in Compton and interlocutor – “his whole plan was to get Suge and Dre back together”, according to David Weldon, a producer known as Rhythm D who has worked with Carter and Knight – was dead.
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