"Witness balks on stand in murder case again rap mogul Suge Knight"
Cle "Boan" Sloan, one of two men Knight is accused of deliberately running over in his pickup truck at a hamburger stand in the Los Angeles suburb of Compton, took the witness stand at a preliminary hearing in the case.
Prosecutors say it was with Sloan whom Knight traded punches through the window of his vehicle before putting the truck into reverse, knocking Sloan and another man, Terry Carter, to the ground, and then pulling forward to run over both men.
Carter, 55, later died. Sloan, 51, suffered a badly mangled left foot and head injuries.
Knight, 49, is charged with murder, attempted murder and two counts of felony hit-and-run in the Jan. 29 fracas, which followed an argument on the set of a commercial for the film "Straight Outta Compton."
Asked by Deputy District Attorney Cynthia Barnes if he could identify Knight as she pointed to him in the courtroom, Sloan said, "That doesn't look like Mr. Knight."
Wearing an orange jail uniform and handcuffs for Monday's proceeding, Knight appeared slightly thinner since his last court hearing, with a touch of gray in his beard.
