Posted on 07/28/2019 3:58:24 AM PDT by marktwain
On Friday, 5 July 2019, two young women attacked a third woman, Rojanai Alston, in a Walmart store in North Versailles, Pennsylvania. It was about 9:30 p.m. A an unknown man accompanying Alston intervened and tried to separate the two women attacking the victim from her.
Rojanai had a concealed carry permit, and a handgun, in her purse. As she is resisting the attackers, she manages to pull the pistol from the purse. The young man dives for cover, and the two attackers flee as she fires five shots. It is all shown in the video below.
Then Rojanai, in the heat of the moment, made what may be a significant legal error. She followed one of the attackers for a short distance. It appears one of the attackers is coming back. She fires two more shots. Those shots have landed her in trouble. They connected with her initial attacker. From pennlive.com:
“She was cold-cocked in the head, not once, not twice, but at least three times, and then they attempted to drag her to the ground. And if she didn't have a firearm on her to disperse her two assailants, I don't know if my client would even be alive right now,” Haber said.
Despite this, Alston was held for trial on a charge of aggravated assault, WTAE reports, adding:
Alston initially fired five shots. But seconds later, when the woman who threw the first punch comes back in Alston’s direction, Alston fired two more times,
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You have it right. The prosecutor said the first five shots were justified, but the last two were not.
Probably because she moved in the direction of her attacker.
I think he will have a hard time convincing a jury.
Hogwash. Been in too many scuffles where no one needed shooting. Someone shoving you or even punching you is not justification to pull out a gun and start shooting off rounds.
This woman was LUCKY she didn’t kill or injure an innocent person.
I’m a retired litigator. She will almost certainly walk. She was hit in the head twice from behind, apparently once from a solid object used as a club. Any decent defense attorney will argue the “unavoidably impaired judgment” defense and win with it.
Thank you for your insight.
One of the many wonderful qualities of freerepublic.
Were any of the attackers actual hit with a bullet? I didn’t see that.
“unavoidably impaired judgment”
Wow. Any pubic high school graduate since 1980 could use that defense.
She fires two more shots. Those shots have landed her in trouble. They connected with her initial attacker.
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