{"id":164592,"date":"2022-12-21T21:44:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T21:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/witness-to-megan-thee-stallion-shooting-testifies-rolling-stone\/"},"modified":"2022-12-21T21:44:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T21:44:11","slug":"witness-to-megan-thee-stallion-shooting-testifies-rolling-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/witness-to-megan-thee-stallion-shooting-testifies-rolling-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness to Megan Thee Stallion Shooting Testifies \u2013 Rolling Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tThe man who<\/span> says he witnessed the street-level shooting that landed Megan Thee Stallion in the hospital tested Tuesday that he saw an initial muzzle flash near two women fighting then a \u201cvery agitated\u201d man alleged to be Tory Lanez \u201cfiring everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tSean Kelly, who was in his bedroom shortly after 4 am on July 12, 2020, told jurors he peered out his window on Nichols Canyon Road in Los Angeles and saw four people fighting and shouting at each other during a \u201cquite violent\u201d confrontation.<\/p>\n

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\tKelly was called as a defense witness at Lanez’s felony assault trial because he told a defense investigator in January 2021 that he believed he saw an initial muzzle flash closest to a woman’s hand during a purported physical altercation between Megan and her former friend Kel Harris near an open door of Lanez’s Cadillac Escalade. His testimony, intended to generate reasonable doubt in the minds of jurors, may have done the opposite.<\/p>\n

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\tKelly tested under oath that while he believes one of \u201cthe girls\u201d fired the first shot, he saw the \u201csmaller gentleman\u201d fire four or five subsequent shots in quick succession, causing a woman to fall to the ground bleeding. And he told jurors the men viciously beat a female victim as she lay in a \u201cfetal position\u201d on the ground.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI want to be clear, I never saw a gun, OK, I just saw flashes,\u201d Kelly testified.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cWhose hand did you see the flashes from first?\u201d George Mgdesyan, Lanez’s lawyer, asked.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cThe girl,\u201d Kelly replied. \u201cBut they were all together, they were very close together.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tKelly waffled on whether Lanez, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, was still inside the vehicle at this point. At first, he placed Peterson inside the SUV during the initial alleged gunshot. Then he vacillated, telling Deputy District Attorney Alexander Bott that Peterson \u2014 repeatedly referred to as the \u201cshorter\u201d male \u2014 may have been outside already.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cThis wasn’t something that took a long time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cWhat happened next? Did you see the gentleman join?\u201d Mgdesyan questioned, asking if Kelly recalled telling an investigator that it looked like Peterson was trying to wrestle the gun away from Harris.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI just saw he was very angry, shouting, and then the flashes then came from him. I never saw a gun,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cThey were all fighting, so I just assumed he grabbed the gun.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI didn’t hear him say, ‘Excuse me, can I have the gun? It’s my turn,\u201d Kelly said, eliciting laughter from several observers in the packed courtroom.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cDid you state that it looked like he was taking the gun away from her?\u201d Mgdesyan pressed.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI believe that they were fighting. Then he had the gun, and he started shooting,\u201d Kelly said.<\/p>\n

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\tOn cross examination, Kelly again described seeing the shorter male \u2013 meaning not Peterson’s taller driver, Jauquan Smith \u2013 firing a weapon.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cWere his arms outstretched?\u201d Bot asked.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cYes,\u201d Kelly said.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cWhat was he pointing at?\u201d Bot asked.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cHe was firing everywhere,\u201d Kelly responded.<\/p>\n

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\tKelly said the \u201cshort guy\u201d fired four or five shots while shouting a \u201ctorrent of abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cHe was going crazy,\u201d Kelly said, \u201creally agitated.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tKelly tested that it was after he heard the four or five gunshots that the female victim who had been \u201ckicking all the time\u201d fell to the street \u201cbleeding.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cShe crawled and stumbled across the road into my neighbor’s driveway, which is a small bridge, and she curled up in ball,\u201d Kelly testified.<\/p>\n

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\tAt one point, he recalled seeing multiple figures that included the two men \u201cbeating\u201d a female victim on the ground. \u201cShe 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,\u201d he tested.<\/p>\n

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\tAsked what happened next, Kelly said: \u201cThe larger gentleman stood up and said the police were coming. They picked the girl up, and to me it seemed they were going to throw her into the river. There’s a stream (nearby). It looked like they were about to throw her in there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tHe described the river as a concrete channel about 15 feet deep.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cIt appeared to me when I was on the phone that they were trying to kill her,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cThey dragged her across the street, then got in the car and sped off.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tAsked if he remembered telling the defense investigator that the first muzzle flash attributed to the girl happened inside the vehicle, he said, \u201cYes,\u201d but he also thought the first flash was fireworks.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cCan I just say, while this was all going on, my end was with me. I told him to get on the floor. I was more concerned about him,\u201d he tested.<\/p>\n

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\tPeterson, 30, has pleaded not guilty to three felony charges in the high-profile case: assault with a firearm causing great bodily injury; concealing a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle; and the recently added count of discharging a firearm with gross negligence.<\/p>\n

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\tIf convicted as charged, the Alone at Prom<\/em> rapper is facing up to 22 years and eight months in prison and subsequent deportation since he’s a citizen of Canada.<\/p>\n

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\tOn Monday, prosecutors attempted to add two new witnesses tampering charges based on testimony from Megan and Harris about \u201cstatements the defendant made in the car, offering them a million dollars\u201d to stay silent about the shooting. Judge David Herriford questioned why prosecutors waited so long to file the additional charges and denied the motion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n