This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.  ... death row Records founder Mary and show that night was arrested early Friday in Los Angeles and is facing a murder charge his bail is currently set at two million dollars in with more deatails we're joined now by doubly SJ entertainer reporter ... John Jurgensen John thank so much for being with us what ... deatails tour of his the rest ... I wish and I was arrested early Friday morning after turning himself in ... and that followed an incident ... where police say that he ran down to man ... killing one of them and injuring the other followed an argument that happened on Thursday ... but this is just the latest of recent troubles for Mr Knight isn't it and he survived ... being shot last August ... the animation mentor those names that sort of synonymous ... with a string of legal problems or ... didn't in the world of music and as he said the at last the last summer before of anti PD email awards he was shot six times at a party ... have walked away virtually unscathed ... after a few days to the hospital my left leg Alabama's attorney is saying right now that the current tuition ... his attorneys say that he's innocent of the murder charge in the accident ... the the right that the truck accident The from fires ignited say knew he was fleeing from some attackers when he ... read out these two men by accident ... aam he didn't go into details about who was attacking him and what ... what caused it ... um but the reports of an altercation earlier that day on the side of the film ... promotional film was being shot elsewhere last Angeles I guess the cop its matters is that everyone knew each other the situation here ... whoa that's what the reports say and well what were some reports say that when the man who was brought down was a crew member from this up from the sheep that happened earlier that day ... um you know it's it's interesting and somewhat ironic that the that the issue was involved with the ... film being made ... about death row Records said NWA ... the founding of the group said he's most synonymous with his past history to so that ... the incident is all related to his own history in the music business that is interesting now Mr Knight has prior convictions so ... how much time could he served if convicted he air ... Brady is a long string of of ... of of a record ... aam and he's already facing thirty years related to the theft of a camera of a photographer last September ... SOEs little unclear how a murder charge ... I would add to that of that story hangover ... loudness what will you say is sheds hip-hop legacy is it ... fair to say that he's part of an earlier era that properties are when we don't see quite so much anymore ... he I mean he's a legendary figure in I'd say notorious figure in hip hop and not a surly for his music action in um you know he's an executive that he founded of death row Records in nineteen ninety one with Dr Gerais ... oh and that label was responsible for some of the biggest the most formal hits in hip hop ... um and you know that the careers of two auction current Snoop Dogg are also ... in line with the records as well ... aam but he was a mess or the guy behind the boards making music use the wants of me in some of the business decisions of me that all happen ... of course he was behind the wheel the night that Tupac was shot so ... everything that it survives for stats for ... us ... really Khona releases some of the more notorious aspects of it to pop but his involvement in some of the most foundational part of the success the genre ... is pretty much undeniable ... all right thank you so much Dr isn't about to see how this all shakes out thinking of ... thank you ...
Marion "Suge" Knight faces a murder charge, following what police call an intentional hit-and-run that killed one man and injured another. WSJ's John Jurgensen reports. Photo: Getty