Posted on 03/30/2017 8:41:14 AM PDT by SSS Two
Elizabeth Hokoana shot a protester because she believed her husband, Marc Hokoana, was in imminent danger of death or serious injury during a Jan. 20 demonstration at the University of Washington, her attorney says.
The wife of the man initially suspected of shooting and wounding a protester during a January demonstration at the University of Washington has told police and prosecutors that she was the person who fired, her attorney said Tuesday.
In an interview with The Seattle Times, the attorney, Steve Wells, said his client, Elizabeth Hokoana, shot the protester because she believed her husband, Marc Hokoana, was in imminent danger of death or serious injury during the Jan. 20 incident in Red Square.
The evidence shows Mrs. Hokoana was legally justified, Wells said of the incident, which occurred outside a campus hall where then-Breitbart editor and alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was delivering a speech.
The case remains under investigation by the UW Police Department and has yet to be submitted to the King County Prosecuting Attorneys Office, which will decide if charges should be filed.
Marc Hokoana, whose Facebook page has indicated he is a supporter of President Donald Trump, Yiannopoulos and the National Rifle Association, was identified in a Feb. 14 Seattle Times story as the shooter based on court documents and previous accounts of the incident.
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The thing that muddled the whole story was that the shooter was quoted as saying that the person he shot was a “white-supremacist.”
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