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(NewsNation) — The begetter of imprisoned rapper Tory Lanez says his lad is being transferred to different installation aft being stabbed 14 times successful prison, arsenic new grounds surfaces that could situation his condemnation for shooting Megan Thee Stallion.
"He is being moved close present arsenic we speak, and we person concerns," Sonstar Peterson said Wednesday connected NewsNation’s “CUOMO.” "He has conscionable been discharged not galore days agone from the hospital, and helium was discharged with 14 stab wounds."
Peterson said situation officials are moving his lad arsenic portion of modular protocol pursuing the attack, which collapsed Lanez's lungs. He said that his lad was the unfortunate successful the situation incidental and "never provoked" the attack.
"He is idiosyncratic who is liked. He's not idiosyncratic who is simply a troublemaker," Peterson said, adding that correctional officers told him they were amazed Lanez was progressive successful immoderate incident.
Tory Lanez squad claims video proves helium didn’t sprout Megan Thee Stallion
The transportation comes arsenic a sworn affidavit has emerged that could undermine the prosecution's case. A bodyguard, who was hired to travel witnesser Kelsey Harris during the trial, claims helium overheard Harris confess to firing the weapon herself.
According to the affidavit, Harris told her boyfriend she changeable the weapon 3 times successful the aerial earlier Lanez ran up to her, grabbed her arm, pushed it down, and she fired doubly much into the ground.
The defender claims helium overheard Harris saying to her boyfriend, "How tin I not archer connected myself?" and "How americium I protected if I archer definite things?"
NewsNation obtained the exclusive video that Lanez’s lawyer claims exonerates him. Lanez’s squad says the Nest camera audio footage captures what sounds similar 3 gunshots, followed by a pause, past 2 much shots, corroborating the bodyguard’s testimony.
Lanez was convicted successful 2022 and sentenced to 10 years successful situation for shooting Megan Thee Stallion aft a enactment astatine Kylie Jenner's Hollywood Hills location successful July 2020. The condemnation was based mostly connected grounds from Megan Thee Stallion and Harris, arsenic good arsenic DNA evidence.
However, the DNA grounds showed lone a 0.01% accidental that familial worldly connected the limb belonged to Lanez, with aggregate different people's DNA recovered connected the gun.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., has separately called for California Gov. Gavin Newsom to pardon Lanez, citing what she calls caller grounds proving his innocence.
