Marion Knight, the former chief executive of Death Row Records, who is better known as Suge, was arrested in West Hollywood on Friday on suspicion of murder after the authorities said the vehicle he was driving struck two men in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant.

One of the men died, and the second was hospitalized, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.

The incident is the latest in a long line of violent brushes with the law by Mr. Knight, 49, the former hip-hop mogul who helped usher Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg into the mainstream, sometimes using brute force and building up his own myth along the way.

While the details of the latest incident are being investigated, a sheriff’s department spokeswoman, Sgt. Diane Hecht, said that Mr. Knight became involved in an argument on Thursday at 3 p.m. with several men who were working on a movie in Compton, Calif., where Mr. Knight and Death Row made their name.