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Department spokesman Deputy Kelvin Moody said Knight, 49, was
released from the hospital at about 9 p.m. (0500 GMT). He
declined to describe the nature of Knight's medical treatment.
Knight was hospitalized on Tuesday, reportedly after complaining
of chest pains, shortly after pleading not guilty to murder,
attempted murder and two counts of felony hit-and-run.
Prosecutors said he ran over two men with his pickup truck in a
parking lot, killing one of them, in the Jan. 29 altercation.
Attorneys for Knight, who co-founded the influential hip-hop
label Death Row Records, say he was attacked in the lot and was
trying to flee when he accidentally hit the men with his
vehicle.
Knight, who has served time for violating the terms of past
sentences, pleaded not guilty in November to a charge stemming
from accusations he stole a camera from a celebrity
photographer.
He was free on bail in that case at the time of the parking lot
incident, which authorities said began when Knight and one of
the two men began throwing punches at each other through the
window of his pickup truck, before he put the vehicle in
reverse, knocking his adversary to the ground.
That man, Terry Carter, 55, founder and owner of a music label
called Heavyweight Records, was killed.
A lawyer for the second man struck by Knight's vehicle, Cle
"Bone" Sloan, told the Los Angeles Times that Sloan was
considering filing a civil lawsuit against Knight.
Knight is due back in court next Monday for a bail review
hearing. His bond is set at $2 million.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Additional reporting
by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Louise Ireland
and Mohammad Zargham)
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