LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Canadian rapper Tory Lanez was ordered to face trial in California on Tuesday (Dec 14) after he allegedly instructed fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion to bop earlier than taking pictures at her toes.
Megan was in an SUV after driving away from a Hollywood social gathering hosted by media character Kylie Jenner in July 2020 when she and Lanez obtained into an argument, a courtroom in Los Angeles heard.
A bikini-clad Megan demanded to be let loose of the Cadillac after which heard Lanez shout “dance, b***h” as he opened fireplace with a handgun, Los Angeles Police Division Detective Ryan Stogner instructed a decide.
Megan, 26, instructed police she was “bleeding profusely” from her toes and that she fell to the bottom and crawled to a close-by driveway.
Lanez, 29, then “emphatically apologised for what he did” and supplied to drive her house, the courtroom heard, with Megan later telling officers he had supplied her cash to not say something in regards to the taking pictures.
Police responding to stories of a taking pictures later stopped the automobile and took Megan to hospital, the place she initially instructed medical doctors she had damage her toes on damaged glass.
A number of bullet fragments have been faraway from her toes, however some stay and he or she instructed the detective that she had problem strolling in sure sneakers.
The Savage (2020) singer instructed Mr Stogner she was “scared (Lanez) was going to get in hassle”, however later alleged that he had shot her.
Investigating officers discovered 4 spent bullet casings on the scene of the alleged taking pictures.
Megan subsequently posted a video to Instagram Dwell wherein she mentioned: “Tory shot me. You shot me and you bought your publicist and your folks… mendacity… Cease mendacity.”
Lanez, whose actual identify is Daystar Peterson, has denied wrongdoing.
“I’ve all religion in God to indicate that … like to all my followers and people who have stayed true to me & know my coronary heart … a cost just isn’t a conviction,” he wrote on Twitter final yr.
He additionally addressed the claims on his fifth album, Daystar (2020), questioning how somebody might get “shot in your foot… do not hit no bones or tendons?”
Lanez was charged in October 2020 with one rely every of assault with a semi-automatic firearm and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a automobile. He faces greater than 22 years in jail if convicted.
At Tuesday’s listening to, a decide refused a defence utility to dismiss the costs. Lanez is on bail and set to be arraigned on Jan 13.