The Tory Lanez assault trial towards Megan Thee Stallion continues on, and a brand new witness has added a probably totally different timeline of occasions.
Rolling Stone reviews that in court docket on Tuesday (December 20), a person named Sean Kelly testified that he noticed your complete confrontation from his bed room window. Kelly mentioned he noticed a “violent” combat first breakout between two ladies earlier than an “angry male” joined. He alleges he noticed the primary muzzle flash nearest to “the girls… about the same time the smallest individual (Lanez) got out of the car.”
“I believe I saw the girl shoot first,” he mentioned. “[But] I believed it was fireworks.”
He then mentioned the male, presumed to be Tory Lanez, started taking pictures subsequent.
“I just saw he was very angry, shouting, and then the flashes then came from him. I never saw a gun,” Kelly mentioned. “They were all fighting, so I just assumed he grabbed the gun.”
He additionally alleges that the entire group started beating on one lady.
“He said the female victim who had been ‘kicking all the time’ got out of the vehicle ‘bleeding,’” Rolling Stone reviews, including that he mentioned, “She was crawling along, crawling, stumbling.”
“She was in a fetal position. She was all curled up on the floor and they were punching and kicking her. They were all beating her,” he testified.
The new testimony comes simply after Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney 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 pal 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 a criminal offense to aim to dissuade a witness.
Judge David Herriford sided with the protection and rejected the extra fees, saying the late change would place Lanez’s authorized group in a “difficult position” 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.
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