Tory Lanez has been found guilty in the felony assault trial related to the 2020 shooting of Megan Thee Stallion.
Following eight days of trial, nearly two days of closing arguments and a day of deliberations, a grand jury has found Tory guilty of all three charges levied against him on Friday (December 23), according to the New York Times.
The three counts were felony assault with a semiautomatic firearm, possession of a concealed, unregistered firearm and discharging a firearm with gross negligence. Lanez pleaded not guilty to all three.
The trial was filled with twists and turns throughout the 10 days. Kelsey Harris had been expected to corroborate Megan’s account of the moments that led up to her shooting, and instead, she delivered a statement that contradicted her former friend and employer’s testimony almost entirely.
Whereas Megan Thee Stallion told the court that Tory had offered her $1 million in exchange for her silence about what took place on the night of July 12, 2020, Kelsey Harris told both the prosecution and the defense that she had never been offered any money by Tory Lanez.
Harris’ response also contradicted a statement she’d given to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office in September, where she’d confirmed some of the details which Megan Thee Stallion has held fast to since identifying Tory Lanez as her alleged shooter.
A witness named Sean Kelly also added a new angle with his testimony, alleging that he saw a woman shoot first while Lanez was still in the vehicle. “I believe I saw the girl shoot first,” he said. “[But] I believed it was fireworks.”
He also said Tory Lanez appeared to shoot as well. “I just saw he was very angry, shouting, and then the flashes then came from him. I never saw a gun,” Kelly said. “They were all fighting, so I just assumed he grabbed the gun.”
The prosecution and Tory Lanez’s attorney were at odds since the start of the trial on December 12. And as both sides made their final arguments to the jury on Wednesday and Thursday, each highlighted moments from the trial which they felt had gone their way.
According to Los Angeles Times reporter Jonah Valdez, who shared notes from the trial via Twitter, prosecutors brought the jury’s attention back to previous testimony by three firearms experts regarding the absence of DNA evidence on the gun. Prosecutors, on the other hand, redirected the jury to consider the firsthand account provided by a number of witnesses.
In a statement on Thursday afternoon (December 22), the Los Angeles Superior Court office of public information announced that a few minutes before the end of their session, the jurors requested that Judge David Herriford provide “a better definition of the word ‘willfully’ and ‘on purpose’” for the sake of their deliberation.
The jury had been given the option of continuing their deliberation after the Christmas holiday if they were unable to reach a decision on Thursday. Instead, they decided to resume on Friday morning.
Tory Lanez, who opted not to testify, faces up to 22 years in prison and deportation to his native Canada.
He did the shit but maybe not enough to convict
What do you mean by this statement?
OJ Simpson trial
He did the shit but maybe not enough to convict
Van Damn!
He’s bout to be some dude’s kickstand for real now lol.
Lock this leprechaun up so we don’t have to deal with him and his garbage music anymore. It would be a great way to start 2023
To add to this, they should keep Megan from dropping more garbage ass music also. Bitch ain’t no different from the next twerking hoe rappers.
LOL all of you clowns who has no thought process of your own! Absolutely zero! All honesty I could care less about tory but he bests 95% of the garbage in America.
Yeah… I’ll believe that alright.. That makes as much sense as calling Nav the greatest rapper to ever come out of Canada… GTFOH
When commenting on thought processes and idiocy you might want to focus a little more on your writing ability. None of your sentences are complete and your grammar is incorrect within each of them. You write as if you were brain dead.
“You clown who has no thought process” … go back to 2nd grade English class before commenting please.
Bet he thought he was going to have a Merry X-Mas and a HYN, didn’t he?
Send Tory Lanez back to Canada, permanently.
He will be deported after done serving prison. Same as Shyne.
Somebody call OG Real Talk lololol you know his armchair lawyer ass gon cry in the car lmao
Breaking News: SNITCHING IS NOW COOL.
Breaking News: SNITCHING IS NOW COOL.
I don’t ge it… who snitched? Are they in a gang? I’m confused youngn.
If someone shoots you or at you and your not in a gang or a part of the crime it’s not snitching.
It is snitching. According to the stupid street code, all beefs must be handled where they started, in the streets. It has nothing to do with being in a gang. You could be somebody’s grandma on the porch who happens to witness a shooting, they will push the same narrative on you. Thats why its all BS.
Thanks for proving you’re not in the streets because snitching is not an innocent civilian reporting a robbery.
Hahahahahahahha look who’s Burt hurt now real talk og in shambles
This shit is scary and you morons are making jokes. Anyone who followed the trial could see Kelsey clearly shot her yet Tory gets convicted. If they can do this to a millionaire image what they could do to the average person.
Wtf…. Money doesn’t always work for stupid people with money. This happens to the average person often, so wtf are you talkn bout. Do you not understand why he didn’t take the stand, because he was scared he’d fuck up. Think about it. In a trial for your freedom, wouldn’t you take the stand to defend yourself if you knew you were telling the truth. Perjury is a mf problem that he didn’t want to deal with.
This peon was guilty from the get beat it
That wasn’t the issue. The issue was that if he would have taken the stand, that they would talk about his past and all that painting him as a monster instead of just talking about the case. Not only that. A rapper snitching ain’t good for ur career
Hahahahahahah oh lord first it was lies now it was Kelsey shot her? It’s so funny how y’all don’t see how pathetic u look black folks r really something lol
22 years in jail isn’t good for your career either
The jury didn’t think so and neither did the Los Angeles DA. The eye witness contradicts your weak argument, his money is irrelevant. He did it, his career is over and he will be sentenced then deported. Get over it and stop with the lies and fake likes.
Isn’t your country getting it’s ass kicked by Ukraine right now? I’d be quiet if I were you,buddy.
Anyone who thinks Russia is “getting its ass kicked” by Ukraine is a MSM sheep lol.
Silence, you communist pig fvcker
Told yall. The gonna sentence and deport that punk. Young thug next.
I never doubted he shot the gun. What I doubt is he intended to shoot her precious feet. I believe he shot at the ground to make her “dance”. The bullets broke up when they hit the concrete and shrapnel grazed her feet which were probally in exposed stripper heels. Lets see the foot x-rays. These heavy charges are just to satisfy the woke feminist mob. If it was Meg who shot Tory’s feet I guarentee the outcome would have been way lesser charges and a BS sentence.
Still shot her, dickhead. Cry about it.
Long sentencing is also do to extensive criminal record. How the system works. Get educated.
Fake talk OG. You know you defended Tory from the beginning.
Get fucked cunt
Your correct, and look at all these sensitive little girls, 20 years for nothing?? Yet they let all the pedophiles off free and blm and lgbqtzwy get free passes to be retards. You woke need to go to an island together and live out your psychopathic desires
To real talk od btw
“Offica, he ain’t mean to shoot da bitch feet. He waz just finna shoot close to them feet to make her dance!”. Great defense lmao.
Unfortunately a bunch of neckbearded virgins sees this as another sign that the era of real men is over. Too bad for them.
I believed Megan from the jump. Happy victory to her!
Even after it came out that she did have sex w dude after she lied and said she didn’t?
Even so but what does that have to do with the actual shooting?
You know the definition of credibility?
Do you know the definition of stupidity?
Whenever I forget, I come across somebody like you and remember
I can’t see I didnt see this coming. Truly crazy tho man.
If a shorty wants to go home..let her go home. Don’t shoot her feet! Like what is wrong with ppl
He ain’t getting no 22 years in L.A. He’ll probably get community service cleaning up trash on the side of the 405 in an orange Cal Trans jumpsuit. He won’t get deported either. Hollyweird likes holding on to their fucked up outsiders.
He’ll do at least 5. Probably get sentenced to ever 10.
What a croc. That sh** show of a case should’ve been thrown out. Nothing definitive of evidence presented only hearsay from a witnesses who testimony was suspect at best. No reasonable objective individual could come to a guilty or innocent conclusion from what was presented. But to say he’s guilty beyond a reasonable doubt is a load.
Lolz, they finna turn this fools asshole out in prison
That’s an American thing.. if your a faggot in the north you get put in pc
Hahahaha. We’re are al tge idiots that were courtroom experts saying he didn’t do it? The moron asking for X-rays? Dumbasses. This midget is going to jail. Want to be a cosplay American, steal out slang, cadences and culture? Now you’ll get a heap of it. Jackass. Hahahahaha
Your embrace pedophiles!
Hahahaha. We’re are al tge idiots that were courtroom experts saying he didn’t do it? The moron asking for X-rays? Dumbasses. This midget is going to jail. Want to be a cosplay American, steal out slang, cadences and culture? Now you’ll get a heap of it. Jackass. Hahahahaha
Now be sure to call out and diss every rapper and celebrity who dissed Megan on this topic. Celebrate your victory, Megan!
Megan is a man tho
Don’t forget Drake, 50 Cent and others who dissed her with regard to this case!
Damn. At least to a midget that cell seems much bigger. LOL. So does all that D he’ll have to deal with. Dude is Canadian. He’s going to get CLOWNED in the Pen. He was guilty as shit from the get go.
you whores and degenerates will rue the day you killed rap music
Next time aim for the head tory
So the defense pointed to objective, DNA evidence that Lanez’s DNA wasn’t found on the gun (something the prosecutor’s expert also agreed with) but they still lost based on subjective eye witness testimony. Eye witness accounts are the least reliable type of evidence (plenty of studies have been done to prove this). The only impartial witness says that a woman shot first. The world’s gone crazy. I’m not saying he is innocent, I’m just saying you shouldn’t be able to convict based on opinion when objective evidence exists. Objective should override subjective.
Don’t want to be that dude Tory Lanez right now!
Dude should’ve testified. Let everyone at least hear his version, either way. Not a fan of dude at all. Just saying!
I live all of the legal experts who chime in saying he’s innocent. The D.A. spent hundreds of thousands and put his reputation and career on the line over this. No one wants to be the guy who “let the Canadian midget go.” L.A. is notorious for not prosecuting people at all nowadays. It was obvious this case was very solid. Tory is an idiot. He put out music about it. Spoke on the case. He’s been all over social media and out in public. Any celebrity in their right mind would lay low and try to play the Saint. The extortion in the pen will be high on this one. He’s a midget and from Canada, plus he’s in there for shooting a woman. Not exactly an honorable thing in that world. Ooooops. LOL. Come to the US, act like us, steal our slang and cadence and try to be a real one. You’ll be amongst a bunch of them soon buddy. For a minute. Also, he’ll be sitting down for at least a 5 piece with his priors. LOL.
I love all of the legal experts who chime in saying he’s innocent. The D.A. spent hundreds of thousands and put his reputation and career on the line over this. No one wants to be the guy who “let the Canadian midget go.” L.A. is notorious for not prosecuting people at all nowadays. It was obvious this case was very solid. Tory is an idiot. He put out music about it. Spoke on the case. He’s been all over social media and out in public. Any celebrity in their right mind would lay low and try to play the Saint. The extortion in the pen will be high on this one. He’s a midget and from Canada, plus he’s in there for shooting a woman. Not exactly an honorable thing in that world. Ooooops. LOL. Come to the US, act like us, steal our slang and cadence and try to be a real one. You’ll be amongst a bunch of them soon buddy. For a minute. Also, he’ll be sitting down for at least a 5 piece with his priors. LOL.
coc nation are a bunch of faggots – Jay Z is some fat lip tranny dude behind the scenes. they ran the train on him at Epstein Island ye has the tapes
Hahahahahahaha. Hey Canada. We know your cosplay asses want to be American and Hip-Hop so bad. You want to play with guns. Don’t shoot women for not wanting to fuck. You will pay for your crimes. Peace!! LOL.
Jay Z gonna choke on that jew sperm he loves gargling so much – his mama taught him well how to get along in this life
It’s not all about who has money any more do the crime now do the time
I guess it’s cool to snitch these days..Megan snitched on dude. Big Fax!!!
Yo! Lanes so small, they gon use his asshole for a condom to smash some other fella with him! Hahahahahahahahahaaa!!!!!