Rapper Tory Lanez Is Expected to Be Sentenced on Day Two of Hearing in Megan Thee Stallion Shooting

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper Tory Lanez is predicted to be sentenced on Tuesday for capturing Megan Thee Stallion within the ft three years in the past, which the star says has left her struggling emotionally ever since.

“Since I used to be viciously shot by the defendant, I’ve not skilled a single day of peace,” Megan said in a statement learn by Los Angeles County Deputy District Lawyer Kathy Ta throughout Monday’s all-day session. “Slowly however absolutely, I am therapeutic and coming again, however I’ll by no means be the identical.”

The hip-hop star, who testified during the trial, mentioned she struggled with whether or not she would seem to present the assertion in particular person, however mentioned she “merely couldn’t convey myself to be in a room with Tory once more.”

She requested that her absence not be taken as an indication of indifference, and urged Decide David Herriford to situation a stiff sentence.

The choose had been anticipated to condemn Lanez Monday at a listening to that always can take solely a few hours, however the proceedings became a marathon two-day session after Herriford had attorneys for the 2 sides argue every issue of his potential sentence. The choose additionally allowed seven witnesses, together with Lanez’s father and the mom of his 6-year-old son, to present statements on Lanez’s charitable giving, his childhood trauma, and his loving parenting.

Prosecutors are asking a choose to hand down a 13-year sentence to the 31-year-old Lanez, whose authorized title is Daystar Peterson. Lanez was convicted of three felonies: assault with a semiautomatic firearm, having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a automobile and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.

Legal professionals for Lanez mentioned in a sentencing memo that he ought to get solely probation and be launched from jail to enter a residential substance abuse program. They plan to enchantment his conviction.

A number of points stay to be debated and determined earlier than sentencing, which implies Lanez is unlikely to be taught his destiny till Tuesday afternoon.

Megan testified in the course of the trial that Lanez had fired the gun behind her ft and shouted for her to bounce as she walked away from an SUV wherein that they had been using in summer season 2020. The pair had left a celebration at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills residence.

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