Rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight has been arrested on a murder charge after being named as a suspect in a fatal hit-and-run in southern Los Angeles.
Two men were hit by a red truck belonging to Knight in the car park of a fast-food restaurant in Compton after an argument apparently broke out.
A 55-year-old man died in hospital and a 51-year-old man was injured.
Sergeant Diane Hecht of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's information office said Knight was arrested at around 3am on Friday and is being held on $2m (£1.3m) bail.
Sgt Hecht said Knight is being questioned by homicide detectives at the West Hollywood sheriff's station.
Earlier Knight's lawyer James Blatt said the Death Row Records founder "was in the process of being physically assaulted by two men and in an effort to escape he unfortunately hit two (other) individuals".
He added: "He was in his car trying to escape."
Mr Blatt said he was "confident that once the investigation is completed, he will be totally exonerated".
Celebrity news website TMZ reported Knight had got into a fight with two men on the set of the film Straight Outta Compton - also starring Ice Cube and Dr Dre.
Los Angeles County sheriff's Lieutenant John Corina told reporters : "Looks like he drove backwards and struck the victims and drove forwards and struck them again.
"The people we talked to say it looked like it was an intentional act."
The empty truck was found in a car park in west Los Angeles some hours later.
Death Row Records, which Knight launched with Dr Dre in the early 1990s, helped launch stars such as Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur.
However, the label collapsed in 1996 when Knight was jailed for probation violations.
He ended up in jail again, this time for 10 months, in 2003, after allegedly getting into a fight outside a Hollywood nightclub.
Last August, he was shot six times inside a Los Angeles nightclub.
In November, he pleaded not guilty to a robbery charge filed over an incident in which a celebrity photographer accused him of stealing her camera in Beverly Hills. Because of prior convictions, he could face up to 30 years in prison.
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