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Young Thug and Birdman Dismissed From Lawsuit Over 2015 Lil Wayne Tour Bus Shooting

Billboard·Rachel Scharf·about 8 hours ago
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Young Thug performs onstage during ComplexCon 2025 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on October 26, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. David Becker/Getty Images for Complex

After a decade of litigation, Young Thug and Birdman have triumphed over legal claims that sought to hold them liable for a shooting on Lil Wayne’s tour bus in Atlanta.

Two Georgia court orders on Tuesday (Nov. 10), obtained by Billboard , dismissed Thug (Jeffrey Williams) and Birdman (Bryan Williams) from the lawsuit filed back in 2016 by Wayne’s former tour bus driver, Alvin Lewis. The driver still has civil claims for emotional damages pending against two other men over the 2015 shooting, a drive-by that occurred on the I-285 freeway after Wayne performed at The Compound club in Atlanta.

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A man named Jimmy Winfrey (also known as Peewee Roscoe) pled guilty to the shooting in 2015, though that admission was wiped on appeal after it was found to be involuntary.…

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