Tory Lanez gets 10 years imprisonment for shooting rapper, Megan Thee Stallion

Kandey Alhassan August 10, 2023 0

Tory Lanez was given a 10-year prison term on Tuesday for shooting Megan Thee Stallion, a prominent figure in the hip-hop community.

The punishment was given to 31-year-old Lanez by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Herriford. Lanez was found guilty of three felonies in December, including assault with a semiautomatic weapon, keeping a loaded, unauthorized firearm in a moving vehicle, and careless gun discharge.

The verdict puts an end to a contentious trial that sparked a cultural uproar in the hip-hop scene and raised issues such as Black victims' reluctance to cooperate with police, gender politics in hip-hop, online toxicity, protecting Black women, and the effects of misogynoir, a particular type of misogyny experienced by Black women.

During the sentence hearing, many individuals praised Lanez for being a good father, charitable, and nice person, but Herriford claimed it was "difficult to reconcile" Lanez with the person who shot Megan.

Herriford remarked that "sometimes good people do bad things." "Actions have consequences, and in this case, nobody is a winner."

After leaving a pool party at Kylie Jenner's Hollywood Hills house in July 2020, Megan said that Lanez shot the gun at the back of her feet and yelled for her to dance as she walked away from the SUV in which they had been travelling. In order to remove the bullet pieces, she needed surgery.

In a statement that was read out loud by a prosecutor on Monday, Megan claimed, "I have not experienced a single day of peace since the defendant viciously shot me.Slowly but surely, I'm getting better, but I'll never be the same.

Lanez begged Herriford for forgiveness as the judge was about to announce his decision. Lanez requested probation or a brief jail sentence, global news said.

Sonstar Peterson, Lanez's father, held back tears as he described how his mother passed away when he was 11 years old, just days after she first shown symptoms of the rare blood condition that would eventually cause her death.

Their youngest child, Daystar Peterson, who has a legal name, "I don't think anybody ever gets over that," he added. But his music ended up being his escape.

In 2009, Lanez started putting out mixtapes. As his reputation grew, he transitioned to major-label albums. His most recent two songs made the top 10 of the Billboard charts.

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