Tory Lanez has pleaded not responsible to assault in relation to the alleged taking pictures of Megan Thee Stallion in the summertime.
The Canadian rapper and singer was charged last month by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office with one felony rely every of assault with a semiautomatic firearm – private use of a firearm – and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a car.
The costs are in relation to an incident on July 12 involving Lanez and Megan, with the latter alleging that Lanez shot at her feet several times following an argument, inflicting her to maintain gunshot wounds to her foot.
Megan Thee Stallion (Image: Wealthy Fury/Getty Pictures for Seen)
Lanez responded to the fees in October by claiming that the “reality will come to the sunshine”.
The singer was arraigned in LA yesterday (November 18), the place he pleaded not responsible to assault with a semi-automatic handgun.
Rap artist charged with assault of girl in Hollywood Hills pleaded not responsible right this moment. He’s due again in courtroom on 1/20. https://t.co/J62gxvztm5 #LADAOffice
— Jackie Lacey (@LADAOffice) November 18, 2020
Lanez is due again in courtroom on January 20, 2021. If convicted as charged, he faces a attainable most sentence of twenty-two years and eight months in state jail.
The case remains to be below investigation by the Los Angeles Police Division.
Final month, a judge issued a protective order preventing Lanez from contacting Megan.
The order got here shortly after Megan addressed the alleged shooting incident in a powerful op-ed for The New York Times, writing that she “was not too long ago the sufferer of an act of violence by a person”. She didn’t identify Lanez within the piece.
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