. . . of course, the fact that she knew the victim indicates that she may have been motivated by something other than defense of self or others, BUT if she's smart that's the story she'll tell in court.
IF the police bother to look for her. I have a feeling her description is on a tiny 3x5 card in the back of a locked filing cabinet behind the furnace in a closet in a basement with a sign on the door reading "BEWARE OF LEOPARD".
Codswallop! It was after she had hit him for the third time.