Daystar Peterson
all three of the counts he was charged with
Associated Press
Megan Pete
NPR
Megan testified
George Mgdesdyan
Kelsey Harris
Alex Spiro
Alexander Bott
CBS interview
George Floyd
in July 2020, after a nine day trial in Los Angeles.
Lanez (real name ) was found guilty on , including assault with a semiautomatic handgun, carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
According to the , the jury deliberated for a day and a half before finding Lanez guilty. He could now face up to 22 years in prison.
On the stand in court on December 13, Megan Thee Stallion (real name ) said the shooting had a serious impact on her mental and physical health.
“I can’t even be happy. I can’t hold conversations for a long time,” she said per .
“I don’t feel like I want to be on this earth. I wish he would have just shot and killed me, if I knew I would have to go through this torture.”
that as she walked away from a car they were in, Tory Lanez shot at her feet and yelled at her to “dance, bitch”.
In his closing arguments, Tory Lanez’s attorney alleged that Megan’s friend at the time, , had been the one to shoot. Harris had denied this.
After the guilty verdict was delivered, Megan’s attorney said “the jury got it right”.
“I am thankful there is justice for Meg,” he added.
In court, prosecutor Deputy District Attorney argued Megan had no incentive to lie about the situation.
“Why would she lie?” Bott said, per the AP.
“She’s been subjected to a stream of hate.
“For what? For coming forward as a victim of domestic violence?”
In a from April 2022, Megan also said she initially told cops she stepped on glass because she was frightened about police brutality directed at herself, Lanez and the other people in the car.
“The incident had just happened, the police are definitely very much ‘shoot first, ask questions after’,” she said.
“I didn’t want them to kill any of us, or shoot any of us, so I just said I stepped on glass.”
She had to have surgery to remove the bullet fragments from her feet.
Tory Lanez’s sentencing is set for 25 January, 2023.
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