Reply #67: The young man who fired, or the young man who was robbing him?

[tburnsten]

I don't know if anything new has come out, but the way I read the story, the guy who was shot and killed was shot after he stopped running away and turned to face the shooter while reaching into his waistband. That is the shooter's story, and I think that should be a very easy story to prove true or false. If he was telling the truth, why should he be punished? The man who was killed obviously caused his own death. If the guy did just run away, and the shooter shot him while he was trying to escape, then the police will be able to discover the truth easily, and then he will rightly rot in jail for years to come.


Either way the event is the fault of the three young men who broke into his vehicle, he didn't go looking for trouble. Doesn't give him the right to kill them if they are running away, but it also doesn't mean he has to wait and see what kind of object the criminal was reaching for.