Video of the incident showed that Markeis McGlockton was backing up when Drejka shot him.
Was that video conclusive? I don’t think so. But any jury is going to have trouble releasing a man who did such a thing. I think that’s the real lesson here.
Agreed. He should have called the law after he made sure the man kept moving away. Shouldn't have gotten into that conflict in the first place over a parking space. I have told people AFTER they go into the store that no parking space is worth dying for and they get it. I am a considerable distance away when I tell them and they can tell I am prepared for their response. There is a way to do it and a way NOT to do it. Some really need the reminder to think before getting into a conflict over a stupid parking space.
The really damning stuff about the shooter is what's came out from other people he had threatened and brandished his firearm at. None of that was of course in front of the jury, but he finally got the fight he was looking for, and now we have to pay to keep his sorry ass locked up for decades and a man is dead. So dumb.
This was a wrongful conviction, pure and simple. This man was violently attacked and he responded with justified lethal force. It matters not if the attacker had appeared to be turning away. The attacker may well had began to turn in order to circle around the defendant and continue the attack from another angle. Attackers don’t stand still they will circle the victim and come at them from behind if possible. There is zero reason to believe the attack was over or that the defendant having already been knocked to the ground was out of danger. There is also no reason to believe the deceased would not be alive today had he not initiated a violent attack. This conviction needs to be overturned.