Rapper Tory Lanez is expected to be sentenced on day two of hearing in Megan Thee Stallion shooting

Rapper Tory Lanez is expected to be sentenced on Tuesday for capturing Megan Thee Stallion within the toes 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 stated in an announcement learn by Los Angeles County Deputy District Legal professional Kathy Ta throughout Monday’s all-day session. “Slowly however absolutely, I’m therapeutic and coming again, however I’ll by no means be the identical.”

The hip-hop star, who testified through the trial, stated she struggled with whether or not she would seem to offer the assertion in individual, however stated she “merely couldn’t deliver 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 challenge a stiff sentence.

The decide had been anticipated to condemn Lanez Monday at a listening to that always can take solely a few hours, however the proceedings become a marathon two-day session after Herriford had attorneys for the 2 sides argue every issue of his potential sentence.

The decide additionally allowed seven witnesses, together with Lanez’s father and the mom of his 6-year-old son, to offer statements on Lanez’s charitable giving, his childhood trauma, and his loving parenting.

Prosecutors are asking a decide to hand down a 13-year sentence to the 31-year-old Lanez, whose authorized identify is Daystar Peterson.

Lanez was convicted of three felonies: assault with a semiautomatic firearm, having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a car and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.

Legal professionals for Lanez stated 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 attraction his conviction.

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

Megan testified through the trial that Lanez had fired the gun in the back of her toes and shouted for her to bounce as she walked away from an SUV through which that they had been using in summer season 2020.

The pair had left a celebration at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills residence.