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Tory Lanez’s legal team is calling for the rapper to be pardoned while claiming to have new evidence in Lanez’s case involving the 2020 shooting of Megan Thee Stallion. Days after Lanez was stabbed in prison, his representatives held a press conference where they maintained that Megan’s former friend Kelsey Harris actually shot Megan, not Lanez.
According to TMZ, several constituents for the non-profit Unite The People addressed the media on Wednesday, May 14 on Lanez’s behalf. Speaking in downtown Los Angeles, Walter Roberts, the organization's lead legal consultant, said a bodyguard named Bradley James overheard Harris admitting to firing the gun that shot Megan.
Allegedly, James heard Kelsey say she fired the gun three times, before Tory grabbed her arm and knocked the weapon down, which caused it to fire twice more.
"Mr. Peterson was never given a fair trial, free from bias, political interference and media-driven pressure," said Gianno Caldwell, FOX News analyst and NY Post contributor, according to FOX 11 Los Angeles. Unite The People is calling for Lanez to be pardoned; and Lanez’s father has also urged Governor Gavin Newsom to pardon Lanez.
Back during Lanez’s trial in 2022, a witness named Sean Kelly testified that he saw "two women fighting” before they were broken up. Lanez, born Daystar Peterson, was found guilty of assault with a firearm, illegal possession of a firearm and negligent discharge of a gun. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of assault with a semi-automatic firearm, having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle, and discharging a firearm with gross negligence. Tory is alleged to have shot Megan in the foot in July 2020 as they left a party at the home of Kylie Jenner.
Megan’s attorney Alex Spiro refuted Peterson’s team’s claims in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.
“Tory Lanez was tried and convicted by a jury of his peers and his case was properly adjudicated through the court system,” Spiro said. “This is not a political matter — this is a case of a violent assault that was resolved in the court of law.”
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