Posted on 03/03/2022 3:31:12 AM PST by fruser1
Mejia is being accused of first-degree murder and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
A prosecutor on Wednesday said that the quarrel between both men started when Mattison, of Glendale Heights, was trying to back his pickup truck into his driveway. Mejia pulled up in a white Ford sedan and went around Mattison instead of letting him finish pulling in, the prosecutor added.
Mattison then chased Mejia, overlapped his car and pulled in front of him, causing Mejia to break off on Bartlett Road near Oltendorf Road. Dashcam footage then caught the moment when Mattison gets out of his truck before approaching Mejia's sedan. A brief verbal altercation occurred, according to the prosecutor, and after words were exchanged, Mattison reached inside the vehicle and struck Mejia in the face.
Law enforcement said Mattison was then shot several times near his liver, his spleen and on the chest, by a 9 mm handgun. In the video, he is seen taking a couple of steps backs on the road.
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At the very least it wasn’t unprovked.Is race an issue here?
play stupid games, win stupid prizes - I vote not guilty.
Chased after the guy . Wanted a confrontation, got one, fatal. Murder? No.
In Britain the only legal response to violence is to die.
RE: “Teen, 18, is charged with first-degree murder for shooting dead father-of-two who walked over to his car and hit him in face through his window during road rage attack”
What the Hell? According to the headline, the guy was already dead.
This happened in Illinois.
I’m not understanding how this isn’t self defense.
the guy thought it was a good idea to chase him down and reach into his car? Wrong answer- and of course there is a GoFundMe up.
That’s self-defense. No question.
Count me in with the justifiable self defense group.
“Let’s see. I’m in my driveway and already home. What should I do? I know. I’ll chase that bastard down and show him what for!”
He was probably also a bad breaker-upper.
Rushing into a vehicle’s maneuvering zone and going around is what New Yorkers do 24/7/365. No one would give it a second thought here.
Unless they left out something, this is just a case of one guy trying to start something and the other guy finishing it. Unless they can show the guy over-reacted, it falls under self defense.
I don’t believe he’ll be convicted of first-degree murder, I feel for the gentleman that got shot, but you really shouldn’t reach into someone’s car under those circumstances.
Chased him down cussed him and reached in and punched him in the face. Then got shot. Hhmmm. Self defense..
“According to the headline, the guy was already dead.”
The sad part? The dead guy will continue to vote Democrat for decades.
“Dashcam footage caught the moment when Mattison got out of his truck before approaching Mejia’s sedan.”
Mattison was hoping to get some video footage that he could post on YouTube, of him “schooling” the young man that passed him.
He got some footage alright...
There was a similar case here in Kentucky a few years ago. The shooter was the one that actually started the whole incident, but the person he shot was the one that ramped it up with a physical attack. In this case it was a baseball bat rather than a fist, but it still fill within the concept of being afraid of serious physical harm the justified his shooting the man. That is, he was tried and found not guilty by reason of self-defense.
That’s Kentucky though. We’ll see how this one plays out.
An armed society is a polite society.
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