{"id":30640,"date":"2023-08-08T23:04:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T23:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/08\/tory-lanez-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-for-shooting-megan-thee-stallion-2\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T23:04:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T23:04:14","slug":"tory-lanez-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-for-shooting-megan-thee-stallion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/08\/tory-lanez-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-for-shooting-megan-thee-stallion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tory Lanez sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting Megan Thee Stallion"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Rapper Tory Lanez<\/a><\/strong> was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday in Los Angeles for shooting fellow artist Megan Thee Stallion<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Last December, Tory Lanez, whose given name is Daystar Peterson, was found guilty of shooting Megan Thee Stallion in the foot in July 2020 as they left a party at the home of celebrity Kylie Jenner.<\/p>\n

At his conviction, Peterson was found guilty of all three charges<\/a> prosecutors had brought against him: assault with a firearm, illegal possession of a firearm, and negligent discharge of a gun for shooting Megan.<\/p>\n

Megan Thee Stallion attends the front row for Coach 1941 during New York Fashion Week on September 10, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Bennett Raglin\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When the shooting occurred, Megan Thee Stallion, whose given name is Megan Pete, had left the party with Peterson along with another woman, Kelsey Harris, who was at the time Megan\u2019s assistant and a close friend, as well as Peterson\u2019s bodyguard. After Pete and Peterson argued, she exited the car, and he began shooting at her feet.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors had sought a sentence of 13 years in prison for the rapper. After the shooting, they said, Peterson launched \u201ca campaign to humiliate and re-traumatize the victim\u201d and \u201cweaponized misinformation\u201d on social media to turn public opinion against Megan.<\/p>\n

In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, Pete told police that she had stepped on broken glass. During her testimony at Peterson\u2019s trial last December, she said that she was so afraid of the police and Peterson that she couldn\u2019t immediately tell the truth. \u201cI don\u2019t feel safe in the car. I don\u2019t feel safe with the police,\u201d she said through tears.<\/p>\n

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Megan Thee Stallion attends the 2019 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 24, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre\/Getty Images for dcp)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She also testified that Peterson had offered her and Harris $1 million each to keep quiet about the shooting.<\/p>\n

On an album released two months after the shooting, Peterson included lyrics denying that he had shot her and asserting that he had been framed.<\/p>\n

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On Monday\u2019s first day of the sentencing hearing, the judge heard statements supporting Peterson, while dozens of people submitted letters to the court on his behalf.<\/p>\n

The maximum sentence for the crimes Peterson was convicted of is 22 years and eight months in prison. However, due to a recently passed California law meant to measure criminal justice reform, courts are now required to impose the middle length of a possible prison term unless there are aggravating circumstances.<\/p>\n

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Tory Lanez attends the radio boradcast center during the 2018 BET Awards on June 23, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Judge David Herriford had previously denied Peterson\u2019s request for a retrial. Peterson, who is a Canadian citizen, also potentially faces deportation from the United States after he serves his sentence.<\/p>\n

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Rapper Tory Lanez was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday in Los Angeles for shooting fellow artist Megan Thee Stallion. Last December, Tory Lanez, whose given name is Daystar Peterson, was found guilty of shooting Megan Thee Stallion in the foot in July 2020 as they left a party at the home of celebrity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}