Rapper MoneySign Suede has died after he was stabbed in a shower at a California prison.
The rising Los Angeles–based rapper had been interred at the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, California.
The agency didn’t detail his injuries but said his death was being investigated as a homicide.
“They said it was a stabbing to the neck,” Valdez’s attorney, Nicholas Rosenberg, told the Los Angeles Times.
Suede signed to Atlantic Records in 2021 and released his most recent album Parkside Baby in September, the Times said.
The Monterey County prison houses more than 4,000 minimum- and medium-security inmates.
Valdez was sent there after being sentenced in Riverside County in December to serve two years and eight months on two charges of being a convicted felon in possession of a gun, according to state corrections officials.