Megan Thee Stallion’s legal team has shared the evidence used to convict Tory Lanez in the 2020 shooting amid unfounded claims that a newly unearthed testimony proves his innocence.
On Thursday, May 22, Megan’s team shared a presentation containing “overwhelming evidence” to support Lanez’s 2022 conviction in the case, for which he was sentenced to ten years in prison. The presentation features text messages between the two artists on July 12, 2020, in which he acknowledged he was responsible for the shooting and apologized to her. “I genuinely want u to know I’m sorry from the bottom of my heart,” he wrote in the messages, which were sent after the incident.
Other evidence includes a call Tory Lanez made from prison to Kelsey Harris, who was present at the scene of the shooting and used to be friends with Megan, in which he admitted to being “so fucking drunk” during the night of the shooting. There are also messages that Harris sent to her bodyguard, in which she wrote, “Help, Tory shot Meg and handled me.”
Portions of the testimonies from the trial are included in the presentation, too, such as both Megan and Harris claiming that Tory attempted to buy their silence with as much as $1 million each. Other key takeaways include DNA evidence, that shows Harris’ DNA was not on the firearm, and the lack of new Ring camera footage that some suggested showed the incident in detail.
“Despite Mr. Lanez being convicted at trial by overwhelming evidence (that included his own admission of his guilt), he and his team—flanked by any ignorant person they can find—have pushed whatever misleading narrative they can,” Megan’s lawyer Alex Spiro said. “One by one, their misleading statements unravel and all that is left is the simple truth: he was convicted by overwhelming evidence and those who seek to traumatize the victim of the crime should be called out as foolish bullies.”
The release of the evidence comes not long after the non-profit organization Unite the People hosted a press conference and claimed that testimony from a former bodyguard and driver for Kelsey Harris proves Tory Lanez’s innocence. At the press conference, it was claimed that Bradley James was a bodyguard for Harris. They said that James was present for a conversation in which Harris admitted she was the person who pulled the trigger, shooting Megan in the foot.
Megan’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, issued a response to the press conference, which rapidly spread among Tory Lanez’s supporters on social media. “Tory Lanez was tried and convicted by a jury of his peers and his case was properly adjudicated through the court system,” Spiro said in a statement. “This is not a political matter—this is a case of a violent assault that was resolved in the court of law.”
Megan Thee Stallion also responded to the claims that Lanez covered for Harris. “At what point are yall gonna stop making me have to re live being shot BY TORY !?” she wrote in a text post shared on TikTok. “At what point are Tory and yall FANS gonna stop lying ? Like how much is the check to keep harassing me? Why is this happening EVERY DAY?”
She highlighted that the Canadian rapper’s supporters and himself went from claiming Megan was never shot, to blaming it on someone else. “I’m sick of this shit,” she wrote, labeling him a “fucking demon” at the end of the post. “FACTS ARE FACTS, he did it, it was PROVEN IN COURT fuck the hate campaign on the internet TORY YOU SHOT ME !! Ain’t no new fucking evidence yall been saying the same shit for years.”
While artists like SZA have spoken out in support of Megan as the unfounded innocence claims continue to circulate, a couple of notable figures, such as Drake, have shown love to Lanez. Florida Republican representative Anna Paulina Luna also called for Lanez to be pardoned. “His 10-year sentence was based on flawed evidence, political pressure, and prosecutorial bias,” she wrote. “Justice must be blind—not driven by headlines.”
