Crime
Rapper Tory Lanez bags 10yrs imprisonment for shooting his colleague, Megan Thee Stallion
Canadian rapper Tory Lanez was on August 8, sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting his colleague, Megan Thee Stallion in 2020.
Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, was found guilty in December 2022 of three felonies related to the shooting, which left his fellow artist inj¥red in the foot.
Prosecutors were seeking a 13-year sentence and cited three violations of pre-trial court orders, telling the judge Peterson had “waged a campaign to humiliate and re-traumatize [Megan].”
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His attorneys had called for probation and a residential drug treatment program that would help the artist deal with alcoholism, which they say he developed to cope with childhood trauma.
The 30-year-old has been in jail without bond since a jury found him guilty on December 2023 of three felony firearm counts over an incident that happened on July 12, 2020 in which Megan Thee Stallion alleged he shot her in the feet.
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