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 Knight, the 49-year-old co-founder of Death Row Records, was
booked at about 3 a.m. (1100 GMT) and was being held in lieu of
$2 million bail, the department said.
The Thursday afternoon incident took place after Knight drove up
to a burger shop in Compton, south of downtown Los Angeles, and
began arguing with two people outside, Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Lieutenant John Corina said.
Knight and one of the men began throwing punches at each other
through the window of his Ford F-150 Raptor pickup truck before
Knight put the vehicle in reverse, knocking one of the victims
to the ground, Corina said.
Knight then pulled forward, running over the first victim and
striking the second, before leaving the scene, Corina said.
One of the two victims, identified as 55-year-old Terry Carter,
later died at a hospital. The condition of the second person,
who was hospitalized, was not made public.
Knight arrived at the sheriff's department West Hollywood
station accompanied by his attorney to take questions from
detectives and was later arrested on suspicion of murder.
“His version of events didn’t match what the witnesses were
telling us," Corina said.
Knight could be brought before a judge as early as Monday, a
spokeswoman for the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office said.
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 "I feel strongly that Mr. Knight did not do anything wrong in
this matter. He was attacked by a number of individuals, that's
already been corroborated by certain witnesses," Knight's
attorney, James Blatt, told television station KTLA.
In November, Knight pleaded not guilty to a charge stemming from
accusations he stole a camera from a celebrity photographer in
Beverly Hills. A few months earlier, he was shot and wounded
inside a West Hollywood nightclub along with two others during a
party ahead of the MTV Video Music Awards.
Death Row Records was a leading rap label in the 1990s,
featuring artists such as Dr. Dre, Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg.
Knight's hip-hop empire declined after he went to prison for a
parole violation, Shakur was shot to death and Dr. Dre left the
label.
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis, Dan Whitcomb and Eric Kelsey in
Los Angeles and Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by
Mohammad Zargham, Sandra Maler and Eric Beech)
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