Birdman And Cash Money Dismissed From Lil Wayne Tour Bus Driver’s Lawsuit
A decade after Lil Wayne’s tour bus was shot at in Atlanta, Birdman is out of the civil case. A Georgia judge on Tuesday dismissed Birdman and Cash Money Records from the lawsuit brought by Alvin Lewis, the driver of the bus that night.
According to TMZ’s report on the order, the judge found that Birdman was not in Georgia that night, and that Lewis failed to “identify any admissible evidence that Bryan Williams or Cash Money Records were involved in the bus shooting.” The judge directed the court clerk to remove Birdman and Cash Money Records as defendants.
Lewis has spent years seeking compensation over the April 26, 2015 shooting, when Wayne’s tour buses were fired on along I-285 after a performance in Atlanta. No one was struck. Lewis’s lawsuit alleged the experience left him fearing for his life and caused continuing physical and emotional injuries along with lost wages; his claims included assault and battery, breach of contract and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The judge noted that neither bullets nor shrapnel struck Lewis.
Jimmy Winfrey, known as PeeWee Roscoe, was convicted of carrying out the shooting. Lewis’s lawsuit, filed in 2017, alleged that Birdman and Young Thug arranged the attack amid Wayne’s public rift with Cash Money. Those were Lewis’s allegations — neither Birdman nor Young Thug was ever criminally charged over the shooting.
Tuesday’s ruling does not end the case for everyone. Young Thug was not dismissed in the order, and no ruling dismissing him has been reported. His attorneys were in a Cobb County courtroom in August arguing that the claims against him should be thrown out for lack of direct evidence, a challenge Lewis’s legal team opposed. The case against Young Thug continues.
Should a lawsuit that produced no admissible evidence against two of its biggest defendants have stayed alive for ten years?
Reporting: TMZ’s report on the court’s order; August Cobb County hearing coverage by XXL.
