Canadian rapper Tory Lanez has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he was convicted of shooting fellow musician, Megan Thee Stallion, and injuring her feet in Hollywood Hills in July 2020.
Megan Thee Stallion stated during her testimony that Lanez fired a gun at her feet and shouted at her to dance following an argument in 2020.
David Herriford, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge, slammed the 31-year-old, who was convicted on three felonies: assault with a semiautomatic firearm, having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
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 Thee Stallion.
“Sometimes good people do bad things,” Herriford said.
“Actions have consequences and there are no winners in this case.”
She had to have surgery to remove bullet fragments.
“Since I was viciously shot by the defendant, I have not experienced a single day of peace,” Megan Thee Stallion said in a statement read by a prosecutor.
“Slowly but surely, I’m healing and coming back, but I will never be the same,” she said.
Lanez asked Herriford for clemency before the sentence was pronounced. Lanez requested either probation or a minimal prison sentence.
“If I could turn back the series of events that night and change them”, I would, Lanez said. “The victim was my friend. The victim is someone I still care for to this day.”
He added: “Everything I did wrong that night, I take full responsibility for.”
The rapper was given about 10 months of credit for the time he has served since his conviction in December
“We’re extremely disappointed,” Lanez’s lead lawyer Jose Baez said outside the court.
“I have seen vehicular homicide and other cases where there’s death and the defendant still gets less than 10 years.”
Baez said the sentence was “really just another example of someone being punished for their celebrity status and someone being utilised to set an example. And he’s not an example. He’s a human being”.
Megan did not attend the sentencing hearing, saying she could not bear to be in the same room as Lanez but wrote a statement that was read in court.
“He not only shot me, he made a mockery of my trauma,” the statement said. “This is a statement for all survivors that their lives matter and there is zero tolerance for the torture that accompanies violence.”
Megan Thee Stallion won Grammy awards for best new artist, best rap performance and best rap song in 2021.
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