Rapper Tory Lanez has been found guilty of shooting fellow hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in 2020.<\/p>\n
A jury in Los Angeles convicted the 30-year-old Canadian of felony negligent discharge of a firearm, assault with a semi-automatic firearm, and carrying a loaded and unregistered firearm.<\/p>\n
He faces more than 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n
Megan Thee Stallion, a 27-year-old Grammy-winning rapper, earlier testified that she was shot in the feet after leaving a pool party.<\/p>\n
Lanez showed no reaction as the verdict was read out. He was remanded in custody and is due to be sentenced on 27 January.<\/p>\n
It was not immediately known whether he planned to appeal.<\/p>\n
Speaking after the case concluded, one of Megan Thee Stallion\u2019s lawyers told reporters \u201cthe jury got it right. I am thankful there is justice for Meg\u201d. The rapper was not in court to hear the verdict.<\/p>\n During the trial, Megan Thee Stallion, whose real name is Megan Pete, testified that she was shot and wounded at the party in the Hollywood Hills on 12 July 2020.<\/p>\n The rapper argued that Lanez, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, became enraged after she had disparaged his musical talent. She said she had demanded to be let out of a luxury car before he fired five rounds at her.<\/p>\n She told the jury the Canadian had told her to \u201cdance\u201d before opening fire.<\/p>\n She also testified that he had offered her $1m (\u00a3830,000) to keep quiet about the attack because he claimed to be on probation for a weapons offence. She initially said to police that she had cut her feet on glass.<\/p>\n Lanez denied the charges relating to a dispute with the fellow artist and his lawyer, George Mgdesyan, unsuccessfully argued that the investigation had been botched.<\/p>\n He said it was Megan Thee Stallion\u2019s friend Kelsey Harris who had shot her, adding that it was all about \u201cjealousy\u201d.<\/p>\n Several bullet fragments were removed\u00a0from Megan Thee Stallion\u2019s feet after the shooting, but some remain.<\/p>\n She also acknowledged in her testimony that she had been \u201cintimate\u201d with Lanez.<\/p>\n Megan Thee Stallion \u2013 who won a Grammy for best new artist in 2021 \u2013 is best known for her hit Savage, which features Beyonc\u00e9.<\/p>\n DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rapper Tory Lanez has been found guilty of shooting fellow hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in 2020. A jury in Los Angeles convicted the 30-year-old Canadian of felony negligent discharge of a firearm, assault with a semi-automatic firearm, and carrying a loaded and unregistered firearm. He faces more than 20 years in prison. Megan Thee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1269713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[176,12871,24317,17297,26210,9148,26211,26212,17298],"class_list":["post-1269712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-finds","tag-guilty","tag-jury","tag-lanez","tag-megan","tag-shooting","tag-stallion","tag-thee","tag-tory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jury](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Megan-Thee-Stallion-says-she-was-shot-in-the-feet-in-July-2020.jpg\" "\\"Jury")