LOS ANGELES — Sentencing was delayed on Tuesday for rapper Tory Lanez, who was convicted of shooting hip-hop artist Megan Thee Stallion in 2020.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Herriford accepted the defense’s request to delay Lanez’s sentencing until Aug. 7, KABC-TV reported. Prosecutors are seeking a 13-year prison sentence for the 30-year-old Canadian rap star, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, according to the television station.
Lanez faces deportation to Canada.
Herriford gave Lanez’s attorneys until Aug. 1 to prepare their sentencing recommendation, according to The Associated Press. Last month, the judge denied a motion by the defense for a new trial, the news organization reported.
In December 2022, a Los Angeles jury convicted Lanez on three charges connected to the shooting that injured Megan Thee Stallion in the foot. Lanez faced charges of assault with a semiautomatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence, the AP reported.
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During the trial, Megan Thee Stallion, 28, whose real name is Megan Jovon Ruth Pete, testified that Lanez told her to “dance, (expletive),’’ and shot her in the feet during a July 12, 2020, argument after a get-together at Kylie Jenner’s home, KABC reported. She testified that she did not doubt that Lanez fired the shots, alleging that he later offered her $1 million to keep quiet about the incident, according to the television station.
Megan Thee Stallion won a Grammy Award for best new artist in 2021. She is best known for her song “Savage,” as well as an appearance on Cardi B’s “WAP,” according to the AP.