Los Angeles: A jury on Friday found rapper Tory Lanez guilty of three charges in the 2020 shooting of hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion that left her wounded with bullet fragments in her feet.
The jury sat for one day before convicting the 30-year-old Canadian rapper, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence. The counts could lead to 22 years in prison.
He was brought to the courtroom handcuffed and showed no visible reaction as the verdict was read.
Meanwhile, Lanez’s father, Sonstar Peterson, leapt up shouting: “This wicked system stands judged before God almighty!” immediately the jury left the courtroom.
“You two are evil, wicked people. You know exactly what you did.” he yelled at he pointed to the prosecutors.
Security men whisked him away from the courtroom, but he continued to shout as he was being taken away.
Megan Thee Stallion, whose legal name is Megan Pete, testified during the trial that Lanez fired a handgun at the back of her feet and shouted for her to dance as she walked away from the car they had been in.
