A Los Angeles jury reached a verdict Friday within the trial of rapper Tory Lanez, who's accused of taking pictures Megan Thee Stallion within the ft in 2020. Lanez, whose actual title is Daystar Peterson, might face greater than 22 years in jail and deportation again to Canada if convicted on all counts.
The Los Angeles County Superior Court docket stated the decision could be learn shortly.
Lanez, 30, has been charged with discharging a firearm with gross negligence, assault with a semiautomatic firearm and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a car.
Megan Thee Stallion, whose actual title is Megan Pete, testified that Lanez shot at her ft 5 instances following a celebration within the Hollywood Hills on July 12, 2020. She additionally instructed the court docket that the taking pictures was preceded by an argument between Megan and Lanez that received heated, particularly once they started attacking one another's music careers.
"I really feel like that basically rubbed him the flawed manner," she stated throughout her testimony, in line with The Related Press. "He stored yelling and cursing."
She received out of the car and tried to stroll away when Lanez leaned out and opened hearth, she stated, leaving the again of her ft wounded. At one level, he yelled "Dance, b----!" she testified. She ultimately received again into the automobile, which was pulled over shortly after, CBS Los Angeles reported.
She stated that, regardless of the taking pictures, she agreed to get again within the car with Lanez, his bodyguard and a 3rd particular person as a result of she was sporting a thong bikini and likewise felt like her supervisor would know what to do if she was capable of get in contact with him, in line with CBS Los Angeles.
She stated she wanted surgical procedure to take away bullet fragments in her ft.
She additionally testified that Lanez had provided her $1 million to maintain quiet in regards to 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 2 individuals within the again seat," she stated. "So I requested the motive force to tug the automobile over. Like, I am achieved with this. And I ought to have stayed out of the automobile. Like, I ought to haven't received again within the automobile. And so they was like, 'Megan, simply get again within the automobile. We're virtually there.' And, like, simply, 'Get again in.' So I get again within the automobile. It is... getting worse."
Because the argument escalated, Megan Thee Stallion stated she received out of the automobile, and that is when, she instructed King, that Lanez fired a gun at her a number of instances.
"So I get out of the automobile and it is like every thing occurs so quick," Megan Thee Stallion instructed King. "And all I hear is that this man screaming. And he stated, 'Dance, b----!' And he began taking pictures. And I am identical to, 'Oh, my God.' Like, he shot a few instances. And I used to be so scared."