LAWRENCE, MASS. (WHDH) - Lawrence police are investigating after a Stoughton rapper was injured during an altercation outside a downtown night club.
Cameras were recording as 26-year-old rapper Don Trag was repeatedly punched in the head, pushed over a railing and kicked outside Centro nightclub on Common Street around 1:30 a.m. Friday.
“You don’t beat someone like that,” Don Trag’s mother Nerlande Saladin said. “Only one person and four of them were beating. That hurt. That hurt to see something like that.”
Officers responding to the reported disturbance outside a nightclub assisted with dispersing a large crowd.
Don Trag was set to open for a national rap artist known as Da Baby.
Witnesses told police the fight broke out as the headlining rapper entered the club.
When officers learned Trang was at Lawrence General Hospital, they went to interview him but learned he had signed himself out, according to Lawrence police.
Authorities reached out to Stoughton police to make sure a well-being check was conducted at his home and found out he had been admitted to a Boston hospital, where he is listed in stable condition.
“As a mom, it really hurt,” Saladin said of her son’s beating. “He could have died. It just tears my heart apart.”
The incident remains under investigation.
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