Canadian rapper Tory Lanez’s sentencing in the Megan Thee Stallion shooting has been postponed to August

LOS ANGELES — Canadian rapper Tory Lanez’s sentencing for the shooting and wounding of hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion was postponed Tuesday.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Herriford accepted the defense’s request to delay Lanez’s sentencing, now scheduled for Aug. 7. Prosecutors are asking for a 13-year prison sentence and Lanez faces deportation to his native Canada.

Herriford decided to give Lanez’s attorneys more time to draft their sentencing recommendation, which is due August 1. The judge who will sentence Lanez denied a request by Lanez’s defense attorneys for a new trial on May 9.

For most of the brief court session, Lanez kept his head down and barely made eye contact with anyone. He wore an orange prison outfit and a black cap.

Lanez was convicted of three felonies in December: assault with a semi-automatic firearm; Having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and grossly negligent firing of a firearm.

Lawyers for Lanez, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, argued that there was insufficient evidence to convict him and that some of the evidence presented to the jury should not have been admitted.

Lanez began releasing mixtapes in 2009, enjoying a steady rise in popularity and releasing albums on major labels. His last two hit the top 10 on the Billboard charts.

Megan Thee Stallion, whose real name is Megan Pete, testified at the trial that Lanez fired a pistol at the backs of her feet and yelled for her to dance as she walked away from an SUV she was in in the Hollywood Hills had driven in the summer of 2020. She said the two got into an argument that got particularly heated when she started insulting his music.

She required surgery to remove gunshot fragments from her feet.