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Megan Thee Stallion Shooting witness testifies – Rolling Stone

December 21, 2022

The man who says he witnessed the street-level shooting that landed Megan Thee Stallion in hospital testified on Tuesday that he saw first flash of muzzle near two women fighting and then a man “very agitated “presumed to be Tory Lanez “shoot everywhere”.

Sean Kelly, who was in his room shortly after 4 a.m. on July 12, 2020, told jurors he looked out the window on Nichols Canyon Road in Los Angeles and saw four people fighting and yelling at each other during of a “fairly violent” confrontation.

Kelly 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 Lanez’s hand. ‘A woman during an alleged physical altercation between Megan and her former friend Kelsey Harris near an open door of Lanez’s Cadillac Escalade. His testimony, intended to create reasonable doubt in the minds of the jurors, may have done the opposite.

Kelly testified under oath that although he believed one of the ‘girls’ fired the first shot, he saw the ‘little gentleman’ fire four or five consecutive shots in quick succession, causing his body to fall. a woman on the ground bleeding. And he told jurors the men violently beat a female victim as she lay in a “fetal position” on the floor.

“I want to be clear, I never saw a gun, OK, I just saw lightning,” Kelly testified.

“Which hand did you see the lightning first?” George Mgdesyan, Lanez’s attorney, asked.

“The girl,” Kelly replied. “But they were all together, they were very close to each other.”

Kelly asked if 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 alleged initial gunshot. Then he hesitated, telling Assistant District Attorney Alexander Bott that Peterson — repeatedly called the “smaller” man — might already be outside.

“It wasn’t something that took a long time,” he said.

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” What happened next ? Did you see the gentleman join? Mgdesyan questioned, asking if Kelly recalled telling an investigator that it looked like Peterson was trying to get the gun away from Harris.

“I just saw he was very angry, he was screaming, and then the flashes then came from him. I never saw a gun,” Kelly said. “They were all fighting, so I just assumed he grabbed the gun.”

“I didn’t hear him say, ‘Excuse me, can I have the gun? It’s my turn,” Kelly said, prompting laughter from several observers in the crowded courtroom.

“Did you say it looked like he was taking the gun away from her?” urged Mgdesyan.

“I think they were fighting. Then he got the gun and he started shooting,” Kelly said.

During cross-examination, Kelly again described seeing the shorter man — meaning not Peterson’s tallest driver, Jauquan Smith — shoot a gun.

“Were his arms outstretched?” Bott asked.

“Yes,” Kelly said.

“What was he showing?” Bott asked.

“He was shooting everywhere,” Kelly replied.

Kelly said the “little guy” fired four or five shots while shouting a “torrent of swear words”.

“He was going crazy,” Kelly said, “really restless.”

Kelly testified that it was after hearing the four or five shots that the female victim who was “kicking all the time” fell to the street “bleeding”.

“She crawled and stumbled across the road into my neighbor’s driveway, which is a little bridge, and she rolled into a ball,” Kelly said.

At one point he recalled seeing several figures which included the two men “beating” a female victim to the ground. “She was in the fetal position. She was curled up on the ground and they were punching and kicking her. They were all beating her,” he testified.

Asked what happened next, Kelly said: ‘The taller gentleman got up and said the police were coming. They picked up the girl and it looked like they were going to throw her into the river. There is a stream (nearby). It looked like they were about to throw her in there.

He described the river as a concrete channel about 15 feet deep.

“It occurred to me when I was on the phone that they were trying to kill her,” Kelly said. “They dragged her across the street, then got in the car and drove off.”

When asked if he remembered telling the defense investigator that the first mouth flash attributed to the girl occurred inside the vehicle, he replied “Yes”, but he also thought the first flash was fireworks.

“Can I just say that while all of this was going on my son was with me. I told him to get on the floor. I was more concerned about him,” he testified.

Peterson, 30, pleaded not guilty to three counts in the high-profile case: assault with a firearm causing grievous bodily harm; hiding an unregistered loaded firearm in a vehicle; and the recently added count of grossly negligently discharging a firearm.

If found guilty of the charges against him, the Alone at the ball The rapper faces up to 22 years and eight months in prison and subsequent deportation as a Canadian citizen.

On Monday, prosecutors attempted to add two new witnesses for falsification of charges based on testimony from Megan and Harris regarding “statements the defendant made in the car, offering them a million dollars” to keep the silence on the shooting. Judge David Herriford questioned why prosecutors waited so long to file the additional charges and denied the motion.