Opening Remarks of the Tory Lanez Assault Trial

Monday, Dec. 12, served as the first day of opening remarks in the Tory Lanez shooting trial in which he is being accused of shooting rapper Megan Thee Stallion.

The incident occurred last year on July 12th after the two artists left a pool party at Kylie Jenner’s house in Hollywood Hills. Tory Lanez is accused of shooting Megan in the foot while riding in an SUV and allegedly told her to “dance b*tch,” according to testimony by Los Angeles Police Det. Ryan Stogner.

During opening remarks in the Los Angeles court room, prosecutors claim an argument took place in the SUV where Megan Thee Stallion was reportedly criticizing Lanez’ music. Meg then allegedly got out of the car and Tory fired five gunshots, striking Megan in both feet, while yelling “dance bitch.”

Prosecutors revealed that both Tory Lanez and Megan Thee Stallion’s former best friend, Kelsey Nicole, both tested positive for gun shot residue. Prosecutors also revealed that Lanez assaulted Nicole after shooting Megan and that’s how the GSR ended on her.

Prosecutors entered into evidence a voicemail Lanez left for Nicole where he apologized profusely as well as the text messages Lanez sent to Megan following the shooting. “I’m sorry from the bottom of my heart … shit should have never happened and I can’t change what I did,” Lanez texted Megan, according to prosecutors. “Cuz I genuinely just got too drunk.”

During the opening statement for the defense, attorneys stated that Tory never admitted to shooting a gun but was apologizing for “having a sexual relationship” with both Megan and Nicole, which reportedly caused the fight.

The defense claims that Megan was motivated by jealously to lie and that it was Nicole who pulled the trigger; Lanez was only trying to take the gun away from her and that how the gunshot residue got on him.

Back in 2020, Megan Thee Stallion outed Tory as the one who shot her.

“You shot me, and you got your publicist and your people going to these blogs, lying and shit,” Megan said on Instagram Live. “Stop lying. Why lie? I don’t understand. I tried to keep the situation off the internet, but you’re dragging it.”