Tory Lanez’s father pleads for mercy at Megan Thee Stallion shooting sentencing

Rapper Tory Lanez is awaiting sentencing for the shooting of rapper Megan Thee Stallion (Amy Harris/Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Rapper Tory Lanez’s father made an emotional appeal to a judge ahead of Lanez’s sentencing for shooting and wounding hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in her feet.

Los Angeles prosecutors are asking a judge to hand down a 13-year sentence to 31-year-old Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, for the shooting.