Canadian rapper Tory Lanez has been sentenced to serve 10 years in prison for shooting and injuring fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion in a three-year-long case.
With this, a three-year legal and pop culture saga that saw two careers and lives upended comes to an end. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Herriford sentenced Lanez to 10 years in prison on Tuesday following a sentencing hearing that lasted nearly two days and featured testimony from seven character witnesses and copies of more than 70 letters attesting to his character.
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The rapper was found guilty of three felonies: assault with a semiautomatic weapon, possession of a loaded, unregistered firearm inside a vehicle, and careless discharge of a firearm.
In issuing the 10-year sentence to the rapper, pointed out Lanez’s post-arrest behavior, including online statements against Megan and false information about the case as a significant aggravating circumstance that prompted him to ask for midterm sentencing when talking about the rapper’s punishment.
The shooting incident is said to have taken place in 2020 and left Meghan with bullet fragments that she had to remove through surgery. Megan said during the trial that Lanez yelled at her to dance as she walked away from the SUV in which they had been traveling in after leaving a pool party at Kylie Jenner’s house and discharged the gun at the back of her feet.
The case has brought to light issues in the American pop culture scene and has seen social media discuss societal issues such as black victims’ unwillingness to talk to police, hip-hop’s gender politics, online toxicity, defending black women, and the effects of misogynoir, and the specific type of misogyny that is targeted towards Black women.
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Although prosecutors in the case were seeking a 13-year sentence, Tory Lanez will serve only 10 years in prison and will also get credit for time served as ordered by the judge.
