Jurors in Tory Lanez trial have reached a verdict in the shooting of Megan Thee Stallion - NBC News

Rapper Tory Lanez is found guilty of each charges in the 2020 shooting of Megan Thee Stallion extracurricular of a Los Angeles party, a assemblage decided Friday, according to The Associated Press.

The Grammy-winning rapper accused Lanez of shooting her successful the ft aft the brace near a enactment astatine Kylie Jenner's location successful 2020. Lanez, whose ineligible sanction is Daystar Peterson, pleaded not blameworthy to shooting her and dedicated an full medium to rebutting Megan Thee Stallion's mentation of events.

He was primitively charged with battle with a semiautomatic firearm and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm successful a vehicle. Prosecutors added a 3rd charge, discharging a firearm with gross negligence, earlier this month. Lanez faces a maximum condemnation of 22 years successful prison. He whitethorn besides beryllium deported to his location state of Canada aft serving his sentence.

The lawsuit originated successful July 2020, erstwhile constabulary stopped an SUV carrying the brace and 2 others successful Hollywood Hills adjacent Los Angeles. Megan Thee Stallion, whose existent sanction is Megan Jovon Ruth Pete, testified that she initially told constabulary that she had chopped her feet connected solid erstwhile asked astir wherefore she was bleeding.

She was taken by ambulance to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, wherever doctors recovered slug fragments successful her foot, which required country to remove.

“I couldn’t locomotion for a while,” she testified. “I inactive person nervus damage. I can’t truly consciousness the broadside of my near foot. The backmost of my feet are ever sore, but I conscionable propulsion done it.”

She publically stated connected her Instagram weeks aft the incidental that she had been changeable and yet identified Lanez arsenic the shooter. She aboriginal took purpose astatine him successful the opus "Shots Fired."

In her testimony, Megan Thee Stallion said Lanez offered her $1 cardinal to support quiescent astir the shooting.

In an interview with Gayle King successful April, earlier the trial, Megan Thee Stallion explained that she had initially lied to constabulary due to the fact that she feared getting into a much unsafe situation.

“You deliberation I’m astir to archer the constabulary that we ... america Black radical got a weapon successful the car?” she asked. “You privation maine to archer the instrumentality that we got a weapon successful the car truthful they tin sprout each of america up?”

Lanez declined to attest successful his defense. His attorneys had called Sean Kelly, a witnesser who lived successful the area, to archer the tribunal that helium had been woken up by 2 women warring the nighttime of the shooting.

Kelly testified that helium did spot 2 women fighting, according to Variety, but past said helium saw what appeared to beryllium aggregate gunshots travel from a antheral who was "firing everywhere."

Jurors besides heard a taped interrogation with Megan Thee Stallion's erstwhile friend, Kelsey Harris, from September, successful which she gave a elaborate relationship of the altercation betwixt the 2 rappers.

Harris, who was besides successful the SUV, testified successful tribunal anterior to the signaling being played that she could not callback galore details of the shooting but reportedly offered wide details of the nighttime successful her interrogation with prosecutors.

Harris said successful the taped interrogation that she heard the 2 reason astir their "artistry" and careers earlier the shooting, according to Rolling Stone. She said that Lanez had ordered the women to exit the SUV, and Megan Thee Stallion was walking distant erstwhile the archetypal shots were fired.

“He’s shooting implicit the apical of the door,” Harris told prosecutors. “(He’s) leaning implicit the beforehand rider door, and helium was shooting the gun.”

The proceedings has garnered important attraction online, with galore Megan Thee Stallion fans criticizing the nationalist attraction fixed to the rapper's intersexual history. Fans person called retired the slut-shaming oregon victim-blaming being utilized to distract from the unit she was subjected to. On the time she took the stand, thousands online utilized the hashtag #WeStandWithMegan to rally down her virtually.

One idiosyncratic wrote successful a tweet with much than 48,000 likes, "I personally don’t attraction if Megan slept with the full metropolis of Houston. WHY WAS SHE SHOT?"

Other celebrities person besides spoken up astir the lawsuit online, including Megan Thee Stallion's "WAP" collaborator Cardi B. She called her a "superstar" successful an Instagram Live.

"Why would idiosyncratic prevarication astir getting shot?" Cardi said. "Why?"

Not each of the online chatter has been supportive of Megan Thee Stallion. Rapper 50 Cent posted a tweet earlier this month with a bid of photos that appeared to amusement Megan Thee Stallion transforming into histrion Jussie Smollett. He wrote that helium was "confused" and didn't "know what to think" earlier adding a nexus to his merchandise website.

Smollett was sentenced to jailhouse and further probation successful March for falsely reporting to constabulary that helium was the unfortunate of a racist and homophobic onslaught successful 2019.