Posted on 08/07/2023 11:21:42 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
A legally-armed woman in North Carolina acted in self-defense when she fatally shot a man during a road rage incident at a grocery store parking lot, according to the local district attorney.
"I think what's really important here for people to understand is that provision in our law is not an invitation to vigilante justice, but it does allow when someone has a responsible fear for imminent death or bodily injury that you're allowed to protect yourself," Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman told ABC 11.
Steven McLamb, 49, was fatally shot outside a Food Lion located at Raleigh's Greystone Village Shopping Center last Tuesday after 5 p.m. Authorities who reviewed footage of the scene say McLamb was the "aggressor" in the altercation, trying to pry open the woman's car doors before she fired at him.
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Let’s hope McLamb was a Democrat and there is one less to worry about.
“I, for one, would NEVER want to mess with you!”
That didn’t sound right. I’d be willing to horse around...
Like that’s going to stop him from voting?
Ha.
Grew up in a suburb outside Detroit but went to Wayne State University for four years (1964-1968) including delivering campus mail during the Detroit riots in 1967. National Guardsman with rifle at 45 degree angle was on our big mail truck and said “Watch upward for snipers. I mean that.”
Nearest supermarket (where I shopped) was burned to the ground and pictured on national TV with charred roofing and cables hanging down toward the floor.
You have a point.
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