Video may clarify Knight's intent in Compton fatality

Video may clarify Knight’s intent in Compton fatality

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A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy walks past part of the Tam’s Burgers parking lot, where the hit-and-run occurred. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

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Marion Suge Knight continues to talk while being led out of Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday. During the hearing, he described his medical ailments and continued to speak over the judge, drawing a sharp rebuke. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

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Judge Ronald S. Coen accepts a plea from Marion “Suge” Knight of no contest to voluntary manslaughter in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom.

(Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

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Former rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight, left, with his defense attorney Albert DeBlanc, listens to the terms of his plea of no contest to voluntary manslaughter Thursday in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom.

(Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

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A Los Angeles County sheriff’s patrol car blocks Central and East Rosecrans avenues in Compton, where a fatal hit-and-run occurred Thursday. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials at the site of a hit-and-run in Compton involving music mogul Suge Knight. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)

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An officer at the scene of the hit-and-run, a restaurant parking lot. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)

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Jose Salgado, 9, watches from Central Avenue as Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials investigate the scene in a Tam’s Burgers parking lot, where two men were struck in a hit-and-run involving music mogul Suge Knight. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

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A family photo of Terry Carter and his wife Lillian Carter. Terry Carter was killed by Marion “Suge” Knight in 2015

(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

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Lt. John Corina of the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department at a news conference Thursday night on the hit-and-run involving music mogul Suge Knight. Investigators are treating it as a homicide. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times Times)

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Rapper Tupac Shakur, left, and Marion “Suge” Knight attend an Aug. 15, 1996, voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles. (Frank Wiese / Associated Press)

By Christopher GoffardStaff Writer

Jan. 31, 2015 9:41 PM PT

Video footage taken outside Tam’s Burgers in Compton may shed light on exactly what happened when Marion “Suge” Knight ran down two men with his truck Thursday, killing one of them, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

“The video is under review by homicide detectives,” said sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Ryan Rouzan. He could not provide specifics about where the tape came from.

Knight, the 49-year-old co-founder of Death Row Records, is being held on suspicion of murder in connection with the incident at the fast-food restaurant that left 55-year-old Terry Carter dead and 51-year-old Cle “Bone” Sloan injured.

The Sheriff’s Department has said it appeared that Knight aimed his vehicle at the two men after arguing and fighting with Sloan.

Knight’s attorney, James E. Blatt, countered that a group of men had attacked Knight and that he had been trying to escape.

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