'I'm No Snitch:' Man Run Over by Suge Knight Refuses to Testify Against Him in Murder Trial

A man who was run over and seriously injured in a Compton parking lot, allegedly by Marion “Suge” Knight, insisted today he remembers little about the confrontation and said he would not be used as a “snitch” to put the former rap mogul behind bars.

“I’m no snitch and I will not be made to be a snitch,” Cle “Bone” Sloan testified during a preliminary hearing for Knight, who is charged with murder, attempted murder and two counts of hit-and-run for allegedly injuring Sloan and killing 55-year-old Terry Carter.

Knight is accused of running over the two men during a fight at 2:55 p.m. Jan. 29 in the parking lot of Tam’s Burgers in the 1200 block of West Rosecrans Avenue near Central Avenue.

Knight’s attorney contends his client was the victim of an unprovoked attack.

Sloan, 51, hobbled into a downtown Los Angeles courtroom this morning and claimed to remember very little about the confrontation. He said he was appearing in court only because he had received a subpoena, and said, “I won’t be used to send Suge Knight to prison.”

He even hesitated when he was asked to identify Knight in court, suggesting the man sitting in court “doesn’t look like the guy who was out there.”

Sloan repeatedly said he didn’t recall much of what happened at Tam’s Burgers, but attorneys read from a transcript of his interview with detectives shortly after he was struck. In that interview, according to the transcript, Sloan said he had argued with Knight earlier at a film set and was driving to another location when he spotted the rap mogul in a parking lot, and heard Knight bad-mouthing him. Sloan told detectives he jumped out of his car and started punching Knight through window of Knight’s truck.

Defense attorney Matthew Fletcher questioned whether Sloan had reached into the vehicle and put the vehicle in gear. Sloan said he recalled little about what happened in the parking lot.

“That’s where everything goes black,” he said.

At one point during Sloan’s testimony, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ronald S. Coen said he believed the witness “is being deceptive.”

The hearing will determine if there is enough evidence for Knight to stand trial on the charges. Knight, 49, remains jailed on $25 million bail.

Knight was free on bail in a robbery case when he was charged with murder.

Knight, a Compton native and former football player, co-founded Death Row Records, which in its heyday in the early 1990s generated revenues of up to $100 million per year.

He helped launch some of rap’s biggest acts, including Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and the late Tupac Shakur. Knight was with Shakur when the rapperwas gunned down in Las Vegas in 1996.

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