The Tory Lanez assault trial towards Megan Thee Stallion continues on, and a brand new witness has added a doubtlessly completely different timeline of occasions.
Rolling Stone reviews that in courtroom on Tuesday (December 20), a person named Sean Kelly testified that he noticed the whole confrontation from his bed room window. Kelly stated he noticed a “violent” battle first breakout between two girls earlier than an “indignant male” joined. He alleges he noticed the primary muzzle flash nearest to “the ladies… about the identical time the smallest particular person (Lanez) acquired out of the automotive.”
“I imagine I noticed the woman shoot first,” he stated. “[But] I believed it was fireworks.”
He then stated the male, presumed to be Tory Lanez, started taking pictures subsequent.
“I simply noticed he was very indignant, shouting, after which the flashes then got here from him. I by no means noticed a gun,” Kelly stated. “They have been all preventing, so I simply assumed he grabbed the gun.”
He additionally alleges that the entire group started beating on one lady.
“He stated the feminine sufferer who had been ‘kicking on a regular basis’ acquired out of the car ‘bleeding,’” Rolling Stone reviews, including that he stated, “She was crawling alongside, crawling, stumbling.”
“She was in a fetal place. She was all curled up on the ground and so they have been punching and kicking her. They have been all beating her,” he testified.
The brand new testimony comes simply after Los Angeles Deputy District Lawyer Kathy Ta motioned so as to add two new witness tampering fees onto Tory’s current fees throughout day six of the trial on Monday (December 19).
Ta cited allegations that Tory supplied Megan and her former buddy and assistant, Kelsey Harris, a “$1 million bribe” to stay mum concerning the taking pictures. She additionally cited California Penal Code 136.1, which makes it against the law to aim to dissuade a witness.
Decide David Herriford sided with the protection and rejected the extra fees, saying the late change would place Lanez’s authorized workforce in a “tough place” to place collectively a correct response.
Tory Lanez nonetheless faces three fees: felony assault with a semiautomatic firearm, possession of a hid, unregistered firearm and discharging a firearm with gross negligence. He’s pleaded not responsible to all three.
If convicted, he faces a most of twenty-two years and eight months in jail, in addition to subsequent deportation to Canada.