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     *Plies is targeted in a lawsuit filed by five Gainesville, FL residents who claim they were injured during a 2006 shooting at one of his shows.

      According to the Gainesville Sun, the plaintiffs are seeking $10 million in damages against the rapper (born Algernod Lanier Washington), his label Slip-N-Slide Records, 283 West (the downtown Gainesville nightclub where the shooting took place), as well as others tied to the event. 

       "If they're suing Mr. Washington, they're suing the wrong person," says his attorney Robert Rush, who also told the Gainesville Sun that he has yet to see the lawsuit. "He does not have legal liability. It is not an entertainer's job to provide security for a club where the entertainer is performing."       

       According to reports, members of Plies' entourage fired into a sold-out crowd of close to 1,000 attendees after organizers shut off his microphone to prepare for the next performer, Lil' Boosie.       

       Two members of Plies' entourage - his brother Ronell Lavatte, 31 at the time, and then 21-year-old Tory Carnegie - were accused of firing at least three rounds and charged with attempted murder. Police searched their vehicle and found five loaded firearms and additional rounds of ammunition.

       Plies and another member of his entourage, Keon D. McRae, were then charged with illegal possession of a concealed weapon. Plies entered a plea of no contest to the charge.