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A California judge on Wednesday rejected rapper Tory Lanez's appeal of his conviction on charges that he shot Megan Thee Stallion with a gun.
A three-judge panel of California's 2nd District Court of Appeal said in its ruling that it fully affirmed the 32-year-old Canadian's three-count conviction. They did not publish their opinion with their arguments.
In December 2022, Lanez was found guilty of three felonies: assault with a semi-automatic firearm, possession of a loaded unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
Megan testified during the trial that in July 2020, after they left a party at Kylie Jenner's Hollywood Hills home, Lanez shot her in the leg and yelled at her to dance as she walked away from the SUV they were riding in with two others.
She had bullet fragments on both legs that had to be surgically removed. It wasn't until months after the shooting that she publicly identified Lanese as the man who fired the gun.
Lawyers for Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Wednesday's ruling. They can petition the California Supreme Court to hear the appeal. Meghan's rep also did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Working serving a 10-year sentence at the California Men's Colony near San Luis Obispo, California. He was transferred there after being stabbed to death by an inmate at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi.
Lanez began releasing mixtapes in 2009 and his popularity has steadily grown, leading to major label albums, two of which have reached the top 10 on the Billboard charts.
