The rapper Beanie Sigel, formerly of Jay Z’s Roc-A-Fella Records, was shot in the stomach on Friday morning in Pleasantville, N.J., Philadelphia’s NBC-10 reported.
The incident occurred just after 9 a.m. outside Beanie Sigel’s home, following “some sort of altercation next to that property,” Jose Ruiz, Pleasantville’s chief of police, told NBC-10. Another man was reportedly injured, but refused to cooperate with the police.
The 40-year-old Beanie Sigel (whose real name is Dwight Grant) was taken to a local hospital in critical condition and underwent surgery. He was awake as of Friday afternoon, according to The Associated Press.
A lawyer for Beanie Sigel said the rapper was not the intended target of the shooting.
Beanie Sigel’s last album with Roc-A-Fella was “The Solution” in 2007. In August, he was released after serving more than two years in federal prison for tax evasion. According to the federal Bureau of Prisons, his probation is scheduled to end on Saturday.