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Tory Lanez Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Megan Thee Stallion Shooting
Tory Lanez is sentenced for shooting and wounding Megan Thee Stallion.
The Canadian musician has been sentenced to 10 Years in prison for shooting his ex-lover, the hip-hop singer Megan Thee Stallion. The sentencing officially brings an end to a dramatic trial that created a cultural firestorm in the hip-hop world. Before the jail time, Tory Lanez had pleaded with the judge not to send him to jail. The judge had also denied the probation his defense had been asking for.
Tory Lanez, was seen in a black skull cap and handcuffed in his orange prison overalls when Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Herriford handed down the sentence.
During a 15-minute address, as he begged not to be sent to jail, the rapper said, ‘Give me some sort of alternative that is not prison. I can be a much better man in my community. I’m not standing before you as a celebrity. I stand as a genuine person who wants a chance. My child needs me; I want to better myself. I want a chance to show the world that the man you see here today is not the real me.’
‘I’m not expecting preferential treatment. But your honor, I’m genuinely asking you with my heart to put me to the test and give me an opportunity. There have been these misconceptions about me being this monster, of not having remorse. But that’s just not true. That night, everybody was drunk, and I said some very immature things… I was wrong. If I could turn back the clock, I would. I apologize.’
‘Everything I did that night I take responsibility for. I ask you for the chance to be a better father, a better mentor. I’m asking you not to judge me just on this case, but on the full scope of my life. ‘I do have a habitual disorder – I want to be a better person,’ Tory Lanez concluded. In making the final verdict, Judge David reportedly took into account two factors that had been proven by the prosecution and warranted sentencing.
Of the two factors used for the verdict, Judge David pointed out that Lanez used a gun and that his victim, Megan Thee Stallion, was ‘particularly vulnerable and defenseless.
Lanez’s attorneys had insisted he was not a threat to society and that probation, mental health therapy, and treatment for alcohol abuse would be a better solution than jail. They also argued that if probation wasn’t acceptable, then his jail term should be no longer than three years. But Judge David rejected the arguments even though he had taken Lanez’s several philanthropic endeavors and his previous clean record into account.
‘Sometimes good people do bad things,’ the judge said as he dismissed the defense’s assertion that Lanez’s mental condition due to childhood trauma was partly to blame for the shooting. While alcohol was involved, that night, said Judge Herriford: ‘It’s clear that the (shooting) incident occurred as the result of an argument – I don’t see a nexus in a mental disorder and the offense.’ However, Lanez said his victim, Megan, is someone he still cares for dearly.
The rapper, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, said in his sentencing, ‘Megan is ‘someone I still care for dearly to this day’ despite the outcome.’ Lanez also said about the shooting that put him behind bars for a decade, ‘I said some very immature things that I shouldn’t have said. I revealed some secrets I shouldn’t have revealed.’ However, he shot Megan in the feet during a drunken argument after a pool party at Kylie Jenner’s home in 2020.
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