Rapper Tory Lanez was discovered responsible Friday on all counts in his Los Angeles trial for taking pictures fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion. Lanez, whose actual title is Daystar Peterson, may face a most sentence of greater than 22 years in jail and deportation again to Canada.
The jury discovered Lanez, 30, responsible of discharging a firearm with gross negligence, assault with a semiautomatic firearm and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a automobile.
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Megan Thee Stallion, whose actual title is Megan Pete, testified that Lanez shot at her ft 5 occasions following a celebration within the Hollywood Hills on July 12, 2020. She instructed the courtroom that the taking pictures was preceded by an argument between Megan and Lanez that acquired heated, particularly after they started attacking one another’s music careers.
“I feel like that really rubbed him the wrong way,” she mentioned throughout her testimony, in accordance with The Associated Press. “He kept yelling and cursing.”
She acquired out of the automobile and tried to stroll away when Lanez leaned out and opened hearth, she mentioned, leaving the again of her ft wounded. At one level, he yelled “Dance, b—-!” she testified. She ultimately acquired again into the automotive, which was pulled over shortly after, CBS Los Angeles reported.
She mentioned she wanted surgical procedure to take away bullet fragments in her ft.
In a press release launched instantly after the decision was learn, L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón praised Megan Thee Stallion’s “bravery,” saying that she “showed incredible courage and vulnerability” together with her testimony “despite repeated and grotesque attacks” that she “did not deserve.”
“Women, especially Black women, are afraid to report crimes like assault and sexual violence because they are too often not believed,” Gascón mentioned.
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During the trial, Megan Thee Stallion mentioned that, regardless of the taking pictures, she agreed to get again within the automobile with Lanez, his bodyguard and a 3rd particular person as a result of she was carrying a thong bikini and likewise felt like her supervisor would know what to do if she was in a position to get in contact with him, in accordance with CBS Los Angeles.
She additionally testified that Lanez had supplied her $1 million to maintain quiet concerning the incident since he was on probation, however a lawyer for Lanez said that wasn’t true.
In an April interview with “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King, Megan Thee Stallion described what led as much as the taking pictures and the way she reacted.
“The argument was with the two people in the back seat,” she mentioned. “So I asked the driver to pull the car over. Like, I’m done with this. And I should have stayed out of the car. Like, I should have not got back in the car. And they was like, ‘Megan, just get back in the car. We’re almost there.’ And, like, just, ‘Get back in.’ So I get back in the car. It’s… getting worse.”
As the argument escalated, Megan Thee Stallion mentioned she acquired out of the automotive, and that is when, she instructed King, that Lanez fired a gun at her a number of occasions.
“So I get out of the car and it’s like everything happens so fast,” Megan Thee Stallion instructed King. “And all I hear is this man screaming. And he said, ‘Dance, b—-!’ And he started shooting. And I’m just like, ‘Oh, my God.’ Like, he shot a couple of times. And I was so scared.”