The doctor who operated on Megan Thee Stallion after she was shot said remnants from the bullets are still inside her feet

• Tory Lanez's trial on assault charges continued on Thursday with testimony from a doctor.
• Dr. Lee Haruno confirmed that Megan Thee Stallion did suffer from gunshot wounds.

On the fourth day of Tory Lanez's trial on assault charges, prosecutors called in a surgeon who operated on Megan Thee Stallion's gunshot wounds, who detailed the gruesome bullet wounds she sustained after a gathering at Kylie Jenner's house in 2020.

Prosecutors with the Los Angeles District Attorney's office accused Lanez of shooting Megan in the foot in the early morning hours of July 12, 2020, while Lanez's attorney has suggested Megan's former best friend Kelsey Harris fired the weapon in a fit of jealousy. Though neither side disputes that Megan was shot, baseless rumors continue to circulate in the hip-hop community that Megan was never shot to begin with.

Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, was arrested the day of the shooting, and charged in October 2020 with assault with a semiautomatic handgun, carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle, and discharging a firearm with gross negligence. He denied shooting Megan and pleaded not guilty to the charges. He faces up to 22 years in prison if convicted.

On Thursday, prosecutors called to the stand Dr. Lee Haruno, chief resident in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's orthopedic surgery department, who explained x-rays of Megan's injuries and said surgery was necessary when she came into the hospital the day of the shooting.

On Megan's left foot, two "metallic foreign bodies" were visible on the outside of her heel bone, Haruno said. Megan was missing the top layer of her skin on this foot, as seen in images she posted and then deleted online, making for a "complex wound closure," Haruno said.

On her right foot, those same "metallic foreign bodies" were present "in soft tissues of the heel bone," otherwise referred to as her Achilles, Haruno said.

In each of the images, there were dozens of specks depicted, showing tiny bullet fragments that the surgeons were not able to remove.

"When foreign bodies are that small, it often causes more harm to try to remove them," Haruno told the court, adding that small fragments still remain in Megan's feet today. On Tuesday, Megan testified she still experiences pain and nerve damage in both feet, and has lost feeling in the left side of her foot.

"It is likely that metallic object in that location can cause persistent pain," Haruno said.

During Megan's testimony on Tuesday, the "Realer" rapper explained that she initially lied to police about the source of her wounds — saying that she stepped on glass — because she worried about the career repercussions of accusing Lanez of shooting her and she was fearful about the law enforcement response the summer of 2020 when tensions between police and the Black community were high.

Days later, she shared on social media that she had been shot. In August 2020, she said that Lanez was responsible.

Since then, some in the hip-hop community and their fans continue to point to Megan's early report of stepping on glass as a sign that she was lying about the incident. Notably, in the opening lines of his song "Circo Loco," Drake appears to accuse Megan of lying: "This bitch lie 'bout getting shots, but she still a stallion / She don't even get the joke but she still smiling."

In his music, Lanez has also cast doubt on the source of Megan's injuries: On "Money Over Fallouts" he raps, "How the fuck you get shot in your foot, don't hit no bones or tendons?"

Celebrity manager Wack 100 said in an Instagram post in April that he believed Lanez was "the real victim" in the case. His account has 11.8 million followers.

After Haruno was excused from the witness stand, the court continued with testimony from Harris. Two other witnesses were brought in after Harris was excused — including a detective who confirmed a post came from Lanez's Instagram account, and an expert on gunshot residue, who confirmed both Lanez and Harris had tested positive for the residue.

The Lanez trial is set to continue Friday.