Rapper Tory Lanez found guilty on all charges in the shooting of Megan Thee Stallion.
A Los Angeles jury has found rapper Tory Lanez guilty of all three charges in the July 12, 2020, shooting of hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in the Hollywood Hills.
ABC News reached out to an attorney for Lanez but did not immediately return a request for comment.
The jury began its deliberations on Thursday and delivered its verdict on Friday afternoon.
Megan Thee Stallion, real name Megan Pete, shared her account of the incident in an emotional statement last week and accused Lanez of shooting her after the altercation.
Pete testified that on the night of July 12, 2020, after an altercation with Lanez, she got out of her car and walked away when she turned to see him with a gun, according to a reporter from Los Angeles-based ABC network KABC.
"He was holding the gun pointing at me," she said, according to KABC, and claimed that he said "dance b----" and fired his gun, injuring both her feet.
"I froze ... I felt shocked," she said. "I wasn't really sure if this was happening. ... I looked at the ground and saw the blood ... everyone was shocked."
Lanez, a popular rapper whose real name is Daystar Peterson, was initially charged with assault with a semiautomatic firearm (personal firearm) in October 2020 and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle, according to charging documents obtained by ABC News. "Personal use of a firearm" is not a separate charge but a sentencing enhancement linked to the first count that could increase Lanez's possible sentence.
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