"Self Defense" shooting of 22 y/o Colombian man

[RamblingRose]

Two portraits emerge of Lilburn shooter
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Two strikingly different portraits emerged Tuesday of the Lilburn resident charged with fatally shooting a 22-year-old who mistakenly pulled into his driveway.

According to his lawyer, Phillip Sailors was a frightened retiree who fired his .22 revolver at Rodrigo Diaz because he feared for his life.

But Diaz’s girlfriend painted a more menacing imagine of Sailors as a elderly vigilante who shot without asking questions. According to Angie Rebolledo, after he shot Diaz, the 69-year-old Vietnam vet pointed the gun at her.

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But the police report indicates that the vehicle was leaving Sailors’ property when Diaz was shot. Lilburn police said they found his red Mitsubishi at the end of the driveway. Diaz was slumped over the steering wheel, blood covering his face and, the incident report states, struggling to breathe.

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Gwinnett District Attorney Danny Porter said he knows little about the facts of this case but said, if deadly forced is used to protect yourself or your home “there has to be some reasonable belief that you’re about to suffer death or great bodily injury to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.”

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http://www.ajc.com/news/news/man-69-accused-of-killing-man-who-went-to-wrong-ho/nT8xp/



Article goes onto say it is not a question of race, however, tension with Latinos is very strong in this area.

[orwell]

1. If the guy was leaving...

...and he still got shot, second degree murder charges are in order.

[mike_c]

2. they're all legal, responsible gun owners...

...until they're not.

[renegade000]

3. Hmm, sort of odd that

The defense's claim is that Sailors fired in self defense because Diaz accelerated towards him... but then why did the bullet enter the left side of Diaz's head? I suppose it's possible that Diaz was trying to ram him while looking at his passenger.... but it's way more likely, coupled with the evidence that car was found at the END of the driveway, that Diaz was shot from the side while trying to accelerate AWAY from the house...

[riverwalker]

4. what is it with men in their 60's?

Sailer was in his 60's, so is the guy Dykes holed up in the bunker with the 6 year old hostage in Alabama, so is the suspect on the loose in todays office shooting in Arizona, so is the guy who shot the urologist this week in the doctors office.
What is it about white men in their 60's?