Posted on 08/17/2019 8:13:56 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
A jury found a grocery clerk guilty of killing a 17-year-old boy who ran out of the store with a beer he didn't pay for in Memphis, Tennessee, in a case that had sparked protests, authorities said.
Anwar Ghazali was convicted of second-degree murder after a four-day trial, Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich said Friday.
"This defendant took it upon himself to be the judge and jury and the executioner over a $2 beer," prosecutor Lora Fowler said, according to CNN affiliate WMC.
The shooting happened in March 2018, after Dorian Harris walked out of the Top Stop Shop with a beer without paying, Weirich said.
Security video of the incident played in court shows that Ghazali, while behind the counter dealing with another customer, pulled out a handgun and pointed it at Harris. He then ran outside to follow the teen and fired several times.
Afterward, he returned to the store and told a witness, "I think I shot him." He did not call the police, and neither did any other customer inside the store, WMC reported.
Harris was shot at least three times and was left to bleed out, Fowler said. His body was found two days later in a yard near the store with gunshots in the back of his thigh, Weirich said.
Ghazali's defense attorney, Blake Ballin, told CNN in an email that Ghazali maintains he acted recklessly that night but his intention was never to harm Harris.
He said they were pleased that the jury rejected the prosecution's argument that this was a calculated and premeditated murder motivated by the theft of a beer. That would have come with a potential life sentence.
Ghazali is expected to be sentenced on September 23.
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It’s all about the beer.
"The penalties offset."
Yes.But I was trying to conjure the parallels between the storeowner in this case playing the part of the cop, as being a kind of wish-fulfillment of how the Michael Brown case was portrayed by his defenders, who spun a false narrative around the real facts of the case, as were soon revealed.
Cooper 35%
Briley 23%
Swain 21%
Runoff in a few weeks
I think cooper and Briley are equally tard
Cooper is Jim Coopers brother
Whoeve wins and both come from political families
It’ll be first southerner mayor since Boner in 1991
Bredesen
Purcell
Dean
Hot stuff
All four were Yankees and raised the snot out of property taxes especially on commercial
Am I the only one wondering why it took 2 days to find the kid’s body? If it was my kid, I’d sure as heck be wondering why he wasn’t home when it got late enough and I’d start making calls frantically.
I’ve been wondering about the same thing.
I can’t find more info. Did his family report him missing?
If so, maybe no one could find him until two days later. Sad.
My guess is the gang he belonged to did not realize he was missing for two days!!!
Constitutional carry implies being able to carry a gun without any training. I disagree with constitutional carry to the extent that the person is ignorant of the nuances of the law. When there no longer is a threat, the game is over. A perp running away from you is not a threat.
>>I disagree with constitutional carry to the extent that the person is ignorant of the nuances of the law. When there no longer is a threat, the game is over. A perp running away from you is not a threat.
If that be the law in your jurisdiction, it is well that you know it. I simply pointed out that law in other jurisdictions may be different, so making blanket statements like “when they’re no longer a threat the game is over” is not universally true.
Of course, when your receiving manager was sending 25% of computers out the back door, you have a big problem. That is why OfficeMax is just a shadow of itself.
My kids knows that if they are away from the house, they either need to call us or be home at the agreed time. But, Mrs Deplorable and I aren’t typical parents.
Yeah, sadly we may now be the exception rather than the norm.
My kids all had reasonable curfews and this was before cell-phones. If they were going to be late for some reason, they knew they’d better find a phone!
“Harris was shot at least three times and was left to bleed out, Fowler said. His body was found two days later in a yard near the store with gunshots in the back of his thigh, Weirich said.”
Shot him in the back of his thigh. I guess he could not walk and bled out?
If it got him in the Femoral Artery, it would have been over in minutes.
Find him $20 for littering.
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That’s ‘ANWR’.
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