Canadian rapper Tory Lane was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for three felonies connected to the 2020 shooting of fellow hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion. Prosecutors.
Canadian rapper Tory Lane was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for three felonies connected to the 2020 shooting of fellow hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion. Prosecutors had sought a 13-year sentence while lawyers for the 31-year-old Lanez had sought probation, arguing in a memo last week that „childhood trauma,“ including the death of his mother when he was 11, played a role in the crime, the reports. In a statement read in court by prosecutors Monday, Megan, who had bullet fragments removed from her feet, said, „Slowly but surely, I’m healing and coming back, but I will never be the same,“ per the AP.
In a courtroom that turned chaotic after a trial that seethed with tension, a Los Angeles jury on Friday found rapper Tory Lanez guilty of three felonies in the 2020 shooting of hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion. The attack left her wounded with bullet fragments in her feet, and Lanez’s conviction could send him to prison for more than 20 years, per the AP.
