Tory Lanez files for restraining order against prison guard
Tory Lanez is seeking protection from a prison guard who he claims is posing a threat to his safety.
The 33-year-old rapper, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, was granted a temporary restraining order on Wednesday, May 27, against a correctional officer at California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, according to documents obtained by USA TODAY.
In the application for temporary emergency relief, also filed May 27, Lanez's attorney Crystal Morgan alleged that a guard at the Division of Rehabilitative Programs, where Lanez is serving a 10-year prison sentence for shooting Megan Thee Stallion in 2020, revealed plans to move the artist to "a more dangerous housing yard" within the facility. The documents state that "due to ongoing threats, intimidation, and harassment," Lanez and his legal counsel fear for his life.
'Retaliatory conduct' in response to lawsuit against prison officials
In April, Lanez filed a $100 million lawsuit seeking damages from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, as well as the warden at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi and 50 of their correctional officers, over the 2025 attack during which Lanez was stabbed over a dozen times by another inmate and suffered two collapsed lungs.
According to the request for the restraining order, the officer at his current facility allegedly referenced Lanez's "near-fatal attack in a threatening manner" after the lawsuit was filed.
"The retaliation, threats, and interference with [Lanez]'s access to the courts are ongoing, immediate, andescalating, and they place [Lanez] at risk of further injury before the Court can hear the matter on full notice," Morgan stated in the filing. "The conduct at issue is an ongoing threat to [Lanez]'s safety. Such a harm cannot be undone by a later judgment or through money damages."
Lanez is asking for the correctional officer to not have any direct contact with him "except as strictly necessary for ordinary functions, but at no time are the correctional officer and [Lanez] to be alone." He is also requesting that all institution personnel "be ordered not to retaliate against" the musician and that "all related video, incident reports, logs, electronic mail, memoranda, grievances, and other records" be preserved.
A judge granted the terms of the temporary restraining order while Lanez awaits his upcoming court dates.
Lanez, who pleaded not guilty on all counts during his trial, is incarcerated for his 2022 conviction of assault with a semiautomatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle; and discharging a firearm with gross negligence after he allegedly shot Megan in the ankle during an argument in the Los Angeles area in 2020.
Contributing: Kelly Lawler and Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY