Imprisoned R&B singer, R. Kelly has been hospitalized.
He was rushed to the hospital after he suffered a near-fatal overdose from medications given to him by prison staff, his lawyer claims.
The American singer, who is serving 30 years in a North Carolina prison for s£x trafficking and racketeering, collapsed in his cell while in solitary confinement after taking a high dose of his anxiety medication.
According to a new filing by his attorney, Beau Brindley, the 58-year-old was placed in isolation on June 10 with his medication, and on the same day, prison staff entered his cell and administered more medication.
Three days later, Kelly reportedly “felt faint” and soon lost consciousness before he was rushed to Duke University Hospital on June 13.
He remained under observation for two days before officials returned him to prison.
Brindley claims in the filing that the officers “gave him an amount of medicine that could have k!lled him”.
Brindley claims that the overdose was intentional. “This was no mistake,” he said. “It was a dose that jeopardized his life and nearly ended it.”
Brindley has filed an emergency motion seeking Kelly’s release from prison, his third request after claiming the singer is not safe behind bars.
The motion references an alleged attempt on Kelly’s life by a trio of prison officials, who he said plotted to have the singer killed by a terminally ill member of the white supremacist group, the Aryan Brotherhood.
According to the motion, three prison officials, including a warden and an assistant warden, conspired to have Kelly killed by inmate, Mikeal Glenn Stine.
