Rap fans went crazy
when they heard Tory Lanez was being blamed for shooting Megan Thee Stallion
after kylie jenner's party.
It took over 2 years for the case to go to trial
but now it’s finally over
and Tory might be sittin down for 22 years.
Let's get into what went down.
So back in July 2020,
Tory, Megan, and a woman named Kelsey Harris
was all partying at Kylie's crib in the Hollywood Hills.
At some point during the night,
Megan and Tory got into it and all three of them left the party.
Not long after,
police got reports of gunshots going off in the Hills
and arrested Tory for carrying a concealed weapon in a vehicle.
But at the time nobody knew what really happened.
A couple days later,
TMZ ran a story
that said Megan’s foot got cut up on broken glass inside the whip -
but her and Tory never commented on the story.
The next day rumors started going around
that Tory actually shot her,
but their teams were still quiet about everything.
Social media went crazy with jokes and memes about the situation.
Megan stayed quiet for a minute,
but then she finally addressed the situation
and tweeted that it might be funny for people on the outside to crack jokes -
but it was her real life and the whole thing left her hurt and traumatized.
At this point Megan still never said anything about Tory,
but the LAPD already had him as a suspect.
A couple weeks later,
Megan went Live to break down what happened.
She let fans know the situation was serious
and that she wasn’t able to talk about it.
Megan confirmed she was shot in both feet,
but she never mentioned anything about Tory.
Megan was still active on social media
and spotted out walking around,
which led to a lot of people spreading rumors that she lied about getting shot.
All the abuse reached a boiling point,
and in August 2020 Megan posted graphic photos of her gunshot wounds
and called out the haters for saying she lied.
She wrote
“I usually don’t address internet bull****
but y’all people are so sick!...
Sorry I’m not as sad and miserable as a lot of y’all lol
but ima keep being Megan Thee Mf STALLION.”
Putting up pics of her feet with actual bullet holes in them
wasn’t enough to stop the hate she was getting,
so Megan went Live the next day
and aired out everything.
She finally said that Tory was the one who shot her,
and addressed all the rumors going around about the situation.
After Megan got shot,
she hopped back back in the whip with Tory and the others
because she didn’t have anywhere else to go.
And when the cops pulled them over after getting reports for shots,
Megan says
she didn’t say anything about Tory shooting her
because she was worried that the cops would kill them all.
This went down around the same time George Floyd was killed by the police,
and Megan says
she was afraid that if they knew Tory had a gun, they all could’ve ended up dead.
According to Megan,
it all started when her, Tory, Kelsey Harris,
and Tory’s bodyguard got into an argument in the whip.
Tory didn’t comment on the situation,
but in September he hopped on Twitter to promote his new album and wrote
“To my fans … I’m sorry for my silence ….
But respectfully .. I got time today ……
9 PM PST”
The next day,
Tory dropped the album and took a shot at Megan on the track
Money Over Fallouts.
He said
“Gotta see a couple questions:
how the f*** you get shot in your foot, don’t hit no bones or tendons?
How the f*** your team is tryna paint me as some whole menace?”
Tory got dragged on social media
for promoting his album like that and dissing Megan.
Then one month later
he was officially charged with felony assault.
He pleaded not guilty and bonded out,
and Tory told his fans “a charge is not a conviction.”
A couple days later,
Megan wrote a piece for the New York Times
called “Megan Thee Stallion: Why I Speak Up for Black Women.”
In the article she talked about how violence has affected her and said
“I’m not afraid of criticism,
and ‘Protect Black women’ should not be controversial.”
On the same day Megan’s article dropped,
a judge ordered Tory to stay at least 100 yards away from her
and to give up any guns he had.
He was was also banned from having “personal, electronic,
telephonic or written contact” with her.
Megan also clapped back with the song Shots Fired, where she said
“You shot a 5’10” b**** with a .22
Talkin’ ‘bout bones and tendons like them bullets wasn’t pellets
A p**** n**** with a p**** gun in his feelings.”
She also aired out Kelsey Harris
for allegedly taking money from Tory to stay quiet about the situation.
Everything calmed down for a while,
but in July 2021
Tory violated the protection order
when he performed at Rolling Loud in Miami.
Then in December
the Superior court in LA upheld his charges and the case was officially going to trial.
Back in April,
the prosecution asked the judge to revoke Tory’s bail
after he tweeted at Megan.
DJ Akademiks was covering the case
and posted how it was revealed in court
that Tory’s DNA wasn’t on the gun that shot Megan.
But Meg said he posted it before the court was even in session
and aired him out for “spreading false narratives,”
that’s when Tory jumped in and said
“u can’t buy and tweet your way out of this one..
Not today.”
Then “Good D*** had me f****** 2 best friends ….
And I got caught …
that’s what I apologized 4 ….
It’s sick how u Spun it tho…”
Tory’s bond wasn’t revoked over the tweets,
but the judge raised his bail
to $350K and banned him from “directly or indirectly”
talking about Megan.
The same month,
Megan had an interview with Gayle King on CBS
and talked about the shooting.
Later Gayle King wrote a piece about it and said
“It bothers me that despite all the evidence,
people can still troll her on social media,
try to take her down,
and make her feel less than.
I don’t understand that part of society we live in today.”
Then in October,
a singer named August Alsina posted on IG
and accused Tory of attacking him at a show in Chicago.
According to Alsina,
Tory and his crew pressed him while he was alone.
Then Tory hit a blunt laced with cocaine
and punched him while Alsina had his head turned away.
Tory was put on house arrest after the alleged attack,
but he denied the story during a live stream with DJ Akademiks.
I don't even know what this kid is talking about brother.
Ok so you're not involved.
No, hell no like I don't know if he's doing a promo,
I don't know what that n**** is talking about.
Then he got even more bad news on December 6th
after he was hit with another felony
for discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
Two years after the shooting went down,
the trial finally started.
During the second day,
Megan took the stand
and talked about how the entire industry had turned against her
and made Tory the victim.
All the abuse she had taken was so bad
that she told the court
“I wish he would’ve just killed me
if I knew I’d have to go through this.”
Kelsey Harris testified the next day
and denied taking hush money from Tory.
Back in September,
the prosecutors had interviewed her and Kelsey told them
that Tory threatened to shoot her while they were in the car -
but during the trial
she dodged the question about it and said
“I don’t want to be here.”
They put her back on the stand the next day
and tried to press her again,
but Kelsey told them the whole night was a blur
and that “we were under the influence.”
She said she didn’t see Tory shoot Megan,
but admitted that she texted Megan’s bodyguard and said
“Help
Tory shot meg
911.”
On the fifth day of the trial,
the jury heard Kelsey Harris’ interview from September,
where she admitted that she saw Tory shooting at Megan.
The next day,
the prosecutors used a line from Kelsey’s diss track at Megan called Bussin Back.
The song came out less than week after Megan’s track Shots Fired,
and Kelsey rapped
“Are you lying to your label?
Do they really know what happened?
Who shot ya?
‘Cause you know it wasn’t me
I was 10 toes down whenever you had beef.”
There was some rumors that Kelsey was really the one who shot Megan,
but they got squashed fast during the trial.
And if she wasn’t the one behind the trigger,
that only left Tory.
The defense brought in a dude
who allegedly saw the situation go down,
but his testimony was all over the place
and full of bad info.
After he was done telling his side of the story,
it was clear that the defense was desperate for anything to make Tory look innocent.
Tory didn’t even take the stand during the trial.
And ten days after it started,
the jury found him guilty on all three felony charges.
Now he’s facing over 22 years and jail,
plus he could be deported back to Canada.
When the guilty verdict was handed down,
Tory’s dad and stepmom went off
and started yelling about how the court system was “evil.”
They had to be taken outside,
and they kept screaming about how crooked the trial was
and took shots at Jay-Z and Roc nation.
I just stood here,
in this Los Angeles county
and witnessed the worst miscarriage of justice that this world has ever seen.
And the whole wicked system of Roc Nation,
including you Jay Z.
Jay hasn’t commented on the case at all,
but Megan is signed to Roc Nation.
Tory’s lawyer says
they gonna try and appeal the case,
as of right now
Tory is headed to prison.
He’ll be back in court in January for sentencing,
so tap in for updates as this wild story develops.