Tory Lanez has been placed on house arrest as he awaits trial on charges he shot fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion.
Greg Risling, assistant chief of media relations at the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, told USA TODAY the court made the decision to place Lanez under house arrest Wednesday following allegations he assaulted singer August Alsina in Chicago last month.
According to CBS Los Angeles, the prosecution filed a motion to have Lanez, 30, brought into custody without bail, arguing he is a danger to society with a pattern of defying court orders. House arrest for Lanez, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, begins Monday and lasts until his jury trial, which starts Nov. 28, Risling said.
USA TODAY has reached out to lawyers for Lanez and Megan Thee Stallion for comment.
Prosecutors allege in the criminal complaint that Lanez fired at Megan Thee Stallion (real name Megan Pete) after she got out of an SUV during an argument in Hollywood Hills in July 2020 and "inflicted great bodily injury" on her. Authorities charged the rapper with felony assault in October 2020 and he pleaded not guilty that November. If convicted, Lanez faces a maximum sentence of roughly 23 years.
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Los Angeles police initially reported the incident only as shots fired, a woman with foot injuries, and a man arrested on a weapons allegation.
But Pete revealed a few days later that her foot injuries came from gunshots, and a month later said in an Instagram video it was Lanez who fired them. She slowly revealed more via social media in subsequent weeks.
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"The way people have publicly questioned and debated whether I played a role in my own violent assault proves that my fears about discussing what happened were, unfortunately, warranted,” she wrote in an op-ed for The New York Times.
The day after he was charged, Lanez tweeted "the truth will come to the light" and "a charge is not a conviction."
In April 2022, Lanez was handcuffed and taken into custody for violating a protective order preventing him from contacting or harassing Megan Thee Stallion, 27, or sharing pretrial information from the case. The rapper posted bail and was released several hours later.
While Lanez didn't directly contact Megan Thee Stallion, Judge David Herriford said some of his tweets appeared to be clear messages to her, and he ordered Lanez not to mention her in any social media posts.
Contributing: Edward Segarra, USA TODAY and Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press
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