A rapper who goes by the title Lil Xan – in honor of the sedative Xanax – used his microphone to smash a visitor within the head at a celebration at Royale, 279 Tremont St. within the Theater District final fall – after which adopted up by kicking the man within the head as effectively, a police detective informed the Boston Licensing Board this morning.
The alleged beatdown by a performer on stage in opposition to someone standing on the dance flooring was on the identical Harvard/Yale social gathering on Nov. 23 after which a Black bouncer went after some drunken, racist college students hurling slurs at him and dragged two of them down the rain-soaked avenue.
Lil Xan, a.ok.a., Nicholas Diego Leanos, 28, of Redland, CA, was arraigned on March 3 on two counts of assault and battery with a harmful weapon (one for the microphone, one for the shod foot). He was launched on private recognizance, based on court docket information, which present he’s scheduled for a pre-trial listening to on Might 2, which he might be allowed to take part in through Zoom.
Based on the BPD detective who investigated the case, Leanos hit the person within the head twice together with his microphone and kicked him within the head, after which fled down an emergency stairway and nearly out onto the road, besides someone there yelled at him that, hey, he isn’t purported to open that door, so he went again into the Royale constructing and located one other strategy to flee. The Crimson recognized the sufferer as a Harvard sophomore.
Royale co-owner George Kalevas mentioned he was referred to as all the way down to the Royale kitchen round 1:30 a.m., the place he discovered the scholar, aware, however “out of it” and his father. “I referred to as 911 immediately,” he mentioned.
Leanos “assaulted the sufferer for no cause,” the detective mentioned.
“I believe the performer simply snapped,” Kalevas agreed. “This was all out of the blue, nothing led as much as this.” The Crimson reported one video of the incident “seems to point out the scholar giving Leanos the center finger shortly earlier than the assault began.”
In response to a query from board Chairwoman Kathleen Joyce for some details about Lil Xan, Kalevas acknowledged “I did not know something about him,” besides his stage title – “Little Xanax, that is all I do know.”
Harmless, and so forth.
