Former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee shot multiple times in Las Vegas – now “fully conscious and doing well in an intensive care unit”

Jake E. Lee performs onstage at Webster Hall in New York City on December 2, 2014
(Image credit: Bill Tompkins/Getty Images)

Jake E. Lee, a legendary guitarist best known for his work with Ozzy Osbourne, and his band Red Dragon Cartel, was shot multiple times in Las Vegas early Tuesday morning (October 15), his representative said in a statement.

According to Lee's representative, the guitarist remains in an intensive care unit at a Las Vegas hospital, but is “fully conscious and doing well.”

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Jackson Maxwell

Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player. Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder and Unrecorded. Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.