Tory Lanez has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in 2020.
Following several delays, the Canadian rapper, real name Daystar Peterson, was sentenced on Tuesday (August 8) after being found guilty of three felonies last December.
These were assault with a semiautomatic firearm, having a loaded and unregistered firearm in a vehicle, and discharging the firearm with gross negligence.
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The subsequent sentencing hearing was originally scheduled for January, but that was rescheduled when Lanez hired new attorneys and again after his legal team filed a motion for a new trial.
On July 12, 2020, after leaving a pool party at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills home, the pair were headed to their rental home in a black SUV driven by Lanez’s security guard.
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Following an argument, Megan exited the car and Lanez pulled out a gun and shot at her feet, which left her wounded and with bullet fragments in her feet.
Lanez has maintained his innocence, saying that Kelsey Harris, who was also in the car with them, was the one who shot Megan and that her management team has been trying to frame him.
Prosecutors called for him to be sentenced to 13 years in prison, while Lanez’s legal team asked for probation and a drug treatment programme to help him with his alcohol abuse.
He also asked the judge for mercy and took full responsibility for “everything I did wrong that night”.
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He said: “If I could turn back the series of events that night and change them, I would. The victim was my friend. The victim is someone I still care for to this day.”
On Monday (August 7), Megan’s statement was read in court: “Since I was viciously shot by the defendant, I have not experienced a single day of peace. Slowly but surely, I’m healing and coming back, but I will never be the same.”
She added how she felt “tormented and terrorised”, continuing to say she “spiralled to a dark, angry place” when Lanez mocked her trauma and urged that: “His crime warrants the full weight of the law”.
Judge David Herriford said: “Sometimes good people do bad things. Actions have consequences, and there are no winners in this case.”
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Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
