Did DaBaby Slap The Wrong Person? Assault Victim Details Night Rapper Struck Her

DaBaby’s Instagram apology wasn’t enough to satisfy his alleged assault victim.

Tyronesha Laws spoke with TMZ in regard to being slapped in the face by the rapper while at an event in Tampa Florida on Saturday night. Laws claims she wasn’t the person in the video who appeared to hit DaBaby in the face with a phone.

“I was standing next to a young lady...I turn around to my boyfriend and I says, ‘There go DaBaby. He coming through,’” she recalled. “And so the young lady standing to the right of me, she pulled out her camera…I see her put her flash on her phone and reach up, but I’m not for sure if she hit him with the phone. I know the flash was on the phone. And all of a sudden he smacks me and when he smacks me I fall down onto her and somebody else.”

Laws claims the incident led her to seek medical attention.

“I woke up,” the victim explained. “My head was hurting really really bad. The top of my right cheekbone, it was hurting. It was like tender so I did go to the hospital and I was diagnosed with a contusion to my cheekbone.”

DaBaby (born Johnathan Kirk) took to social media to publicly apologize for hitting Laws, whom he reportedly did not know the identity of at the time.

“I do sincerely apologize,” the 28-year-old said in a post to his Instagram story following the incident. “I do. I’m very sorry that [it] was a female on the other end of that flashlight on that phone, but, you know, keep in mind I couldn’t see you cause you got the flash this close to me… But out of all them fans how many of them knew how to zoom in...instead of popping me in my [expletive] eye with the phone?”

However, Kirk’s apology was followed by a comedy skit featuring Michael Blackson reenacting the situation. The video impacted Law’s perception of the “Suge” rapper’s initial statement.

“He still made a joke about it,” she told TMZ. “ Like yesterday he uploaded something to his page in a clothing store making a joke about it so I don’t feel like, you know, he was sincere with the apology.”

Furthermore, Laws claims that the incident has impacted multiple aspects of her life, including her child’s sleep.

“I was embarrassed...I got people calling me, writing me on Instagram through fake pages. People seeing me on my job saying, ‘Oh, you’re the girl that, you know, got slapped.’ It’s embarrassing. My daughter waking up in the middle of the night crying, overhearing me on the phone with my lawyer talking about the situation. It’s hateful.”

Laws got a police report on the night of the incident. Her lawyer, Matt Morgan, remains in contact with DaBaby’s legal team.