Megan Thee Stallion shooter Tory Lanez sentenced to 10 years in prison
foxnews.comTory Lanez was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday. A jury found Lanez, whose full name is Daystar Peterson, guilty of three felony charges in December after the rapper shot and wounded Megan Thee Stallion in 2020.The charges included assault with a semiautomatic firearm, having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
Prosecutors initially requested the rapper receive 13 years behind bars. The Canada native's legal team requested that he should get only probation and be released from jail to enter a residential substance abuse program.They also plan to appeal his conviction.
Megan testified during the trial that Lanez had fired the gun at the back of her feet and shouted for her to dance as she walked away from an SUV in which they had been riding back in summer 2020.The pair had left a party at Kylie Jenner's Hollywood Hills home.
Judge David Herriford said it was "difficult to reconcile" the kind, charitable person and good father many people described Lanez as being during the sentencing hearing with the person who fired the gun at Megan. "Sometimes good people do bad things," the judge said. "Actions have consequences, and there are no winners in this case." The court received letters of support for Lanez – including a letter from the rapper's six-year-old son.The "Say It" rapper's father also spoke to the judge during Monday's hearing, choking back tears as he talked about Lanez losing his mother at age 11.
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