Three men were arrested after rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was beaten up in a Florida gym bathroom and taken to the hospital. The attack was caught on video.
Law&Crime looked at online jail records and found that Rafael Medina Jr., 43, Anthony Maldonado, 25, and Octavious Medina, 23, were in the Palm Beach County Jail. They were charged with robbery and assault in the attack and were being held on those charges.
Police said in a news release that the troubled 26-year-old rapper, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, was hurt in a fight at a LA Fitness in Lake Worth, Florida.
A video shows a man stomping on the rapper’s ribs while he is on the floor. You can hear someone say, “Take a picture. I want to be well-known now.”
As the rapper walks out of the bathroom after the attack, someone in the video says, “I’m a fan.”
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said that he wasn’t in danger of dying from his injuries and asked for more information about the attack.
Lance Lazzaro, the rapper’s lawyer, told TMZ that a group of men attacked him while he was in a sauna and that he didn’t have any security guards with him at the time. The lawyer said that he tried to fight back, but there were too many attackers. Guards at the gym heard the fight. Police were called, and the attackers ran away. The rapper was taken to the hospital.
In July, his security guards, including a retired NYPD detective, were charged with stealing from him.
The security team was charged with chasing and robbing a man through Harlem while their SUVs’ lights and sirens were going off.
In a statement, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said, “A group of famous people is not a police force, and Manhattan is not the Wild West.”
The prosecution of Tekashi 6ix9ine’s security team comes after years of the rapper’s legal problems being heard in multiple criminal courts.
In 2015, he admitted that he had used a child in a sexual performance, which is a crime.
After three years, Tekashi 6ix9ine was arrested for racketeering. He testified against members of the Nine Trey gang and was let out on home detention during the COVID-19 pandemic.
