Suge Knight is an American record producer who is best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records. He has received wide notoriety for his criminal past. Knight is presently in prison awaiting trail on the murder charges against him filed in 2015.

On January 29, 2015, he was involved in a hit-and-run where he killed Heavyweight Records co-founder Terry Carter and left director Cle Sloan hospitalized in Crompton, Knight turned himself in to the police the next morning. His trial date has been set on January 8, 2018.

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Knight has had run-ins with the law several times before his 2015 arrest. He was arrested for the first time in 1987, when he assaulted his then girlfriend. On Halloween that year, he was arrested again for theft and attempted murder but got out on two years probation. In February 1997, he was sentenced to nine years in prison for violating the probation. He was released in 2001.

His next arrest came in 2008 when he was found beating his girlfriend Melissa Issac outside a Las Vegas strip club. A few months later, the charges were dropped. Most recently, in August 2017, Knight was charged for threatening to murder Straight Outta Compton director F. Gray Gray.