Rojanai Alston
I would give odds they will find it justified self defense.
Shows that every bullet comes with a lawyer.
Regardless of what the letter of the law might say about this particular incident I would give her the benefit of the doubt...unless,perhaps,there's an important point here that I'm missing (which seems possible).
The thuggery and savagery is common these days and accepted as everyday occurrences
Think she needs some work on the range.
Based on what little I know (just this article) I’d be hard pressed to convict her.
One handed shooting with a purse hanging from your arm. That would make an interesting IPSC course of fire.
In a situation like this, with multiple attackers, the victim does not have th point of view of the security camera. She does not know if there are other attackers in every direction. It is disorienting, and she is fighting for her life.
Wow, that was a LOT of yanking and flying fists before that gun came out..!
Yet yeah, the damning part will be how she advanced, firing, after she really got her dander up, which I totally understand.
The most shocking part for me:
The guy she was with seems to instantly recover, back to being unfazed, and begins “cleanup, on aisle 5” literally within seconds of the end of the shooting, the wafts of cordite still wafting around thick, I’m sure.
The level of violence that community is utterly resigned to is astonishing. For many, peace and violence are utterly unlike, one is zero while the other is one.
Yet for these other people it’s all a smooth continuum, and you never really get to full peace.
“...Shows that every bullet comes with a lawyer. ...”
Absolutely perfect statement.
This seems inside out ... or am I reading it wrong? She is in trouble for the last two shots when her attacker reapproaches??? I thought she was toast for first firing at the fleeing perps. Seems to me that the final shots were the most justified.
I’m a retired litigator. She will almost certainly walk. She was hit in the head twice from behind, apparently once from a solid object used as a club. Any decent defense attorney will argue the “unavoidably impaired judgment” defense and win with it.
Were any of the attackers actual hit with a bullet? I didn’t see that.