“It’s possible that the only way he could guarantee not being attacked again, was to use the amount of force necessary to disable his assailant, and he did that. It was self-defense, not attempted murder.”
And that’s where the article disconnects with displayed facts. Both of them were shot, Diarra twice and the thief once. The article does not say the thief attacked him after Diarra got the gun and minimum force is questionable when he shot the thief in the chest with no mention of a further attack. Can the thief be charged with attempted murder, of course because the article did display an attack with the gun by the thief.
So who’s guilty? In my mind without proof of an attack by the thief after Diarra got the gun and his shooting the thief in the chest, after the thief pulled the gun originally before it was taken away, they both are.
wy69
Would it not be *reasonable* or possible to expect the suspect to struggled to regain control of the gun from the victim, after the suspect just shot and wounded the victim twice, who now is wounded and very vulnerable and at a disadvantage?
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“garage attendant was hit with an attempted murder charge after confronting an armed thief and wrestling the gun away before opening fire on the suspect”
The thief was shot in the chest after having the gun wrestled away from him.
He wasn’t shot in the back. Although the details are important, a superficial understanding of what happened leads me to believe the shooting of the thief was self-defense.
The big takeaway is to be sure to get a lawyer after shooting anyone for any reason. The charges most likely come from the victim not carefully choosing what words were used to explain the shooting.
Diarra was shot twice first, while he was grappling with his assailant for the gun. You claim they’re both guilty, but you have no idea what condition Diarra was in after being shot, so how you can claim he was guilty of attempted murder because he didn’t run away? You’re making assumptions about things that are unknown. That’s what the media does, and it’s what they want you to do.