Layzie Bone Scratches Eye

By Stephen M. Silverman

09/02/1997 at 12:00 AM EDT

Grammy-winning Bone Thugs-N-Harmony rapper Layzie Bone, 26, suffered a quarter-inch scratch on the pupil of his right eye while shooting a video for his debut solo album, his spokesman told the Associated Press. Bones, whose real name is Steven Howse, was apparently injured on Friday at a historic but defunct mental health hospital facility in Camarillo, where as part of the video (called "Listen") he was pretending to escape from a glass enclosure. It is not clear whether the scratch came as the result of an accident or as a reaction to special-effects materials.