Jurors deciding whether Tory Lanez report Megan Thee Stallion

Jurors deciding whether Tory Lanez report Megan Thee Stallion

LOS ANGELES (AP) ” Jurors began deliberations Thursday at the trial of rapper Tory Lanez, who is charged accompanied by shooting accompanied by every one one other accompanied by wounding hip-hop celestial body Megan Thee Stallion inside the feet.

The jury of septet women accompanied by every one one other accompanied by five men received the instance late Thursday earlier to noon following Lanez™s defence completed a closing quarrel from a day earlier accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Los Angeles County prosecutors gave a brief rebuttal.

They will resolve on trio felony counts brought opposed to the 30-year-old Canadian rapper, who has pleaded not guilty: discharging a firearm accompanied by gross negligence, assault accompanied by a semiautomatic firearm accompanied by every one one other accompanied by carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm inside a vehicle. The counts could lead to up to 22 years inside prison accompanied by every one one other accompanied by deportation.

Megan Thee Stallion, 27, whose legal name is Megan Pete, testified that Lanez fired a handgun at the spine of her feet accompanied by every one one other accompanied by shouted for her to trip while she walked away from an SUV inside which they had been riding inside the Hollywood Hills inside the summer of 2020. She needed surgery to remove bullet fragments from her feet.

In closing arguments, prosecutors emphasized the bravery it took for her to go nearer forward accompanied by every one one other accompanied by the vitriol she has faced for it. They said she had no indeed indeed inducement to tell anything nevertheless the truth.

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Lanez™s legal practitioner alleged inside his closing that the shots were actually fired by Megan™s then-best-friend Kelsey Harris inside a envious fight over Lanez, who tried to place an extremity to the shooting. The attorney, George Mgdesyan, alleges Megan created a additional sympathetic narrative by pinning the shooting on Lanez.

Harris denied actuality the shooter accompanied by every one one other accompanied by formerly identified Lanez while the one holding the gun. Her attorney, inside an email, declined to remark on her involvement.

Lanez ” whose legal name is Daystar Peterson ” began releasing mixtapes inside 2009 accompanied by every one one other accompanied by saw a steady rise inside popularity, moving on to major-label albums. His last place of set of two reached the top 10 on Billboard™s charts.

Megan Thee Stallion was by that hour dated a greatest rising celestial body at the hour dated of the shooting, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by her prominence has surged since. She won a Grammy for finest new creator inside 2021, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by had No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 accompanied by her own air Savage, featuring Beyoncé, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by while a guest on Cardi B™s WAP.

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