{"id":30294,"date":"2023-03-23T00:04:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T00:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=30294"},"modified":"2023-03-23T00:04:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T00:04:03","slug":"rapper-tekashi-6ix9ine-injured-in-assault-in-florida-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/03\/23\/rapper-tekashi-6ix9ine-injured-in-assault-in-florida-gym\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine injured in assault in Florida gym"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Rapper&nbsp;<strong>Tekashi 6ix9ine<\/strong>, whose testimony against his own gang helped convict two high-ranking members, was assaulted by several people at a gym in Florida, officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An \u201caltercation between several individuals\u201d&nbsp;brought Palm Beach County sheriff\u2019s deputies to an LA Fitness outlet in Lake Worth on Tuesday night, the sheriff\u2019s office said in a&nbsp;<strong>social media post<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The assault left the rapper, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, with several injuries. He was taken to a hospital but his injuries were not considered life-threatening, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A motive for the assault, including whether it was connected to his cooperation with prosecutors, was unclear. No arrests have been made, and investigators have asked anyone with information to contact them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rapper\u2019s attorney, Lance Lazzaro, did not respond to an email from The Associated Press. But he told other news outlets that Hernandez was attacked by three or four people in the gym\u2019s sauna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tekashi 6ix9ine, known for his rainbow-colored hair and \u201c69\u201d tattoo on his forehead, previously faced decades in prison as part of a racketeering case in wich he was accused of using a violent gang as a \u201cpersonal hit squad.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead,&nbsp;<strong>his sentence was reduced<\/strong>&nbsp;to about two years after his testimony against the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, earning him a label as a \u201csnitch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Rapper&nbsp;Tekashi 6ix9ine, whose testimony against his own gang helped convict two high-ranking members, was assaulted by several people at a gym in Florida, officials said Wednesday. An \u201caltercation between several individuals\u201d&nbsp;brought Palm Beach County sheriff\u2019s deputies to an LA Fitness outlet in Lake Worth on Tuesday night, the sheriff\u2019s office said in a&nbsp;social media post. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[11261,183,7960,11284,5321,8088,9762,6825,11111,11525,10560,7968,9686,8306,428,1987,11307,5349,7418,6727,2153],"class_list":["post-30294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-accused","tag-assault","tag-case","tag-convict","tag-florida","tag-gangsta","tag-gym","tag-hospital","tag-injured","tag-injuries","tag-la","tag-nine","tag-palm-beach-county","tag-prison","tag-rapper","tag-rapper-tekashi-6ix9ine","tag-sentence","tag-social-media","tag-tattoo","tag-tekashi","tag-tekashi-6ix9ine"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}