Megan Thee Stallion’s legal team has released the evidence used to convict Tory Lanez in the 2020 shooting case following unsubstantiated claims that recently surfaced testimony proves his innocence.
On Thursday, May 22, Megan’s team published a presentation containing “overwhelming evidence” supporting Lanez’s 2022 conviction, which resulted in a ten-year prison sentence. The presentation includes text messages exchanged between the two artists on July 12, 2020, where he acknowledged responsibility for the shooting and offered an apology. “I genuinely want u to know I’m sorry from the bottom of my heart,” he wrote in messages sent after the incident.
Additional evidence features a phone call Tory Lanez made from prison to Kelsey Harris, who witnessed the shooting and was formerly friends with Megan, during which he confessed to being “so fucking drunk” on the night of the shooting. There are also messages Harris sent to her bodyguard stating, “Help, Tory shot Meg and handled me.”
The presentation also contains portions of trial testimonies, including both Megan and Harris alleging that Tory tried to purchase their silence for up to $1 million each. Other significant details include DNA evidence showing Harris’ DNA was not found on the weapon, and the absence of new Ring camera footage that some claimed captured 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 stated. “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 evidence release follows a recent press conference hosted by non-profit organization Unite the People, which claimed that testimony from a former bodyguard and driver for Kelsey Harris proves Tory Lanez’s innocence. During the press conference, they alleged that Bradley James served as Harris’ bodyguard and was present during a conversation where Harris supposedly admitted to being the one who fired the shot that injured Megan’s foot.
Megan’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, responded to the press conference, which quickly gained traction 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 addressed the claims that Lanez was covering 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 pointed out that the Canadian rapper’s supporters and he himself shifted from claiming Megan was never shot to blaming someone else. “I’m sick of this shit,” she wrote, calling 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 voiced their support for Megan as the baseless innocence claims keep spreading, several notable figures, including Drake, have shown support for Lanez. Florida Republican representative Anna Paulina Luna also advocated for Lanez to receive a pardon. “His 10-year sentence was based on flawed evidence, political pressure, and prosecutorial bias,” she wrote. “Justice must be blind—not driven by headlines.”
