“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.
“...leads me to believe the shooting of the thief was self-defense.”
Don’t read into it. Can only work with the provided facts. There is nothing in the article that says Diarra was being attacked during his part of the shooting. Just that apparently the thief was there and could be shot. And as the article didn’t mention any other weapon, or an attack on Diarra, Diarra just shot him with the only gun between the two while the thief was facing him. And that’s all the article says. Please don’t assume anything other than what you’ve got.
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