BREAKING: Beanie Sigel SHOT In New Jersey, Beans Wife Asking For Your Prayers! [Watch]

Dec 5, 2014 Philadelphia rapper Beanie Sigel has 

been shot after an apparent fight outside a Jersey 

Shore home, police tell NBC10. His attorney believes 

the rapper was not the intended target. The shooting 

happened around 9:20 a.m.

Friday outside the home where he lives along the 800 

block of Spruce Avenue in Pleasantville, New Jersey, 

police said.  "From the first appearance, it would 

appear that there was some sort of altercation next to 

that property," Pleasantville Police Chief Jose Ruiz 

said.

Sigel, whose real name is Dwight Grant, was hit in the 

stomach by a bullet that traveled out his back, police 

said. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition 

and is currently in surgery, Sigel's attorney, Fortunato 

Perri, Jr., told NBC10. Perri, Jr. said the 40-year-old 

rapper had just returned home from dropping his kids 

off at school when he came upon the fight near his 

house.

The attorney said it appears Sigel was an unintended 

victim in the shooting. "The whole thing is a tragedy," a 

cousin of Sigel's wife said. She refused to give her 

name. "It's just very sad and I just ask that everybody 

keep our family in prayer and that he pulls through." 

Sigel was released from federal prison in August after 

serving a two-year sentence for tax evasion.

The Internal Revenue Service said he owed more than 

$728,000 in back taxes. He was moved to a halfway 

house in Philadelphia after his release and then was 

transitioned into home monitoring. His probation ends 

on Saturday, according to the Federal Bureau of 

Prisons.The rapper was wearing a monitoring bracelet 

on his ankle at the time of the shooting, police said.

In 2013, Sigel was also sentenced to six to 23 months 

in prison after pleading guilty to a drug possession 

charge in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. 2015 

Grammy Nominees Announced Sigel was formerly 

signed to Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella Records before the two 

rappers broke ties following a public fight. He had 

three albums that reached the top five on the Billboard 

charts.

He had a concert dubbed "Beanie Sigel: The Return" 

scheduled for Dec. 18 at the Theater of the Living Arts 

on South Street. This isn't the first time Sigel was shot. 

He was hit in the arm during a 2006 shooting in 

Philadelphia.