Young Thug Dismissed From Lil Wayne Tour Bus Lawsuit as Driver Plans Appeal

Young Thug is out of the lawsuit over the 2015 shooting at Lil Wayne's tour bus. Two Georgia court orders dated Tuesday, Nov.

Young Thug is out of the lawsuit over the 2015 shooting at Lil Wayne's tour bus. Two Georgia court orders dated Tuesday, Nov. 10, obtained by Billboard, dismissed every claim against Young Thug (Jeffrey Williams) and his label YSL, along with Birdman (Bryan Williams) and Cash Money Records, from the civil suit Wayne's former tour bus driver Alvin Lewis filed in 2016. This is a civil case being dismissed, not criminal charges being dropped. The bus was shot at on I-285 after Wayne's April 2015 show at The Compound in Atlanta; nobody was hit. Lewis claimed the shooter, Jimmy Winfrey, known as Peewee Roscoe, was Thug's tour manager and acted at the direction of Thug and Birdman. Judge Eric A. Brewton found "no evidence of an employment relationship" between Winfrey and either YSL or Cash Money, said the tour-manager claim was unsupported, and called the theory that Birdman ordered the shooting "pure speculation and conjecture," per Billboard. Phone records between Winfrey's and Birdman's phones did not show who made the calls or what was said, the judge wrote. Lewis's attorney, Jeff Gewirtz, told Billboard on Wednesday they plan to appeal. Reps for Thug and Birdman did not return Billboard's requests for comment. Lewis still has claims against Winfrey and Arnold Martinez, known as YSL Duke, and a conference on trial logistics is set for February. Winfrey's 2015 guilty plea in the shooting was later thrown out on appeal; he pleaded guilty again in 2024 as part of the YSL case, in which Thug ultimately went free.