Casanova was reportedly involved in a vicious altercation with another inmate in prison. According to NBC New York.
The news outlet reported, Casanova, whose real name is Caswell Senior, was physically assaulted with a weapon—believed to be some sort of blade across the face—by another inmate named Ulysses Lugo. After getting slashed in the face the reporter says the rapper chased Lugo and jumped on top of him and “cut inmate Lugo’s face multiple times.”
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A correction officer spoke about the altercation and said: “Inmate Lugo? You couldn’t see his face because it was saturated in blood… and his whole uniform was saturated in blood. Inmate Senior was sitting there and blood was just coming out of his face.”
A spokesperson for Essex County, Anthony Puglisi said, “This minor incident and whether weapons were employed is under investigation.”
Just a few days ago Casanova penned an emotional letter to the judge as he gets ready to be sentenced later this month for his alleged crimes as part of the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation gang. In the letter he wrote:
“I am telling you and anyone that will listen that I wanted out before I was arrested and I am out. I learned through my music career that people will listen and that I don’t need to associate myself with a gang to succeed. I don’t need to associate with a gang even if I don’t succeed,” he wrote.
“While I have been in here I lost my father to cancer. While I put on that strong facade, all I wanted to do was end it. Surviving on Rikers Island and upstate correctional facilities were not easy with racial and gang tension and violence at its height.”
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Casanova continued: “I thought I needed to stay in the life in name because it was a way to promote my career. I don’t care what the government tells you. I am telling you the truth. I was not involved in the daily activities of this gang. I wasn’t anyone’s boss.
“What I was and I regret this was a person that they could use to promote themselves in a world I swear to you I was trying to leave. I clearly did not do a good enough job of this as I did find myself in one bad situation after another.”