Witness to Megan Thee Stallion Shooting Testifies – Rolling Stone

The man who says he witnessed the street-level shooting that landed Megan Thee Stallion in the hospital testified Tuesday that he saw an initial muzzle flash near two women fighting then a “very agitated” man alleged to be Tory Lanez “firing everywhere.”

Sean Kelly, who was in his bedroom shortly after 4 a.m. on July 12, 2020, told jurors he peered out his window on Nichols Canyon Road in Los Angeles and saw four people fighting and shouting at each other during a “quite 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 a woman’s hand during a purported physical altercation between Megan and her former friend Kelsey Harris near an open door of Lanez’s Cadillac Escalade. His testimony, intended to generate reasonable doubt in the minds of jurors, may have done the opposite.

Kelly testified under oath that while he believes one of “the girls” fired the first shot, he saw the “smaller gentleman” fire four or five subsequent shots in quick succession, causing a woman to fall to the ground bleeding. And he told jurors the men viciously beat a female victim as she lay in a “fetal position” on the ground.

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

“Whose hand did you see the flashes from first?” George Mgdesyan, Lanez’s lawyer, asked.

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

Kelly waffled on whether 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 initial alleged gunshot. Then he vacillated, telling Deputy District Attorney Alexander Bott that Peterson — repeatedly referred to as the “shorter” male — may have been outside already.

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

“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 wrestle the gun away from Harris.

“I just saw he was very angry, shouting, 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, eliciting laughter from several observers in the packed courtroom.

“Did you state that it looked like he was taking the gun away from her?” Mgdesyan pressed.

“I believe that they were fighting. Then he had the gun, and he started shooting,” Kelly said.

On cross examination, Kelly again described seeing the shorter male – meaning not Peterson’s taller driver, Jauquan Smith – firing a weapon.

“Were his arms outstretched?” Bott asked.

“Yes,” Kelly said.

“What was he pointing at?” Bott asked.

“He was firing everywhere,” Kelly…