These days, without video evidence, it's hard sometimes to sort the truth out.
Did the guy who did the shooting (with a legally owned firearm, 2-3 shots, one of which killed a 17-year old girl in the pickup truck) have a legitimate reason to do so AKA "standing your ground?" He claimed he was hassled and then chased by a group of white people in a truck during a late night fast food run with his girlfriend.
The driver and passengers of the pickup truck that allegedly chased him
admitted to drinking alcohol that night. The driver also faced an obstruction charge for withholding information from what happened that night and told his friends to do so as well. One of the teens in the pickup truck
had been arrested the month prior with multiple counts of DUI, hit and run, and reckless driving. This same teen was seen earlier yelling out the window of the truck. In addition, there were reports this group of teens had harassed and scared a Subway clerk that night as well.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgia-m...204739548.html
Quote:
William Marcus Wilson believed he was standing his ground when he fired at a pickup truck he says was trying to run his car off the road as he drove home with his girlfriend one night last month. He had a licensed handgun with him, and he might have assumed that he was covered by Georgia’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which reads, in part, “A person who uses threats or force... in defense of self or others, ... in defense of a habitation, or … in defense of property other than a habitation, has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and use force ... including deadly force.” But Wilson, 21, a college student who goes by Marc, is a Black man from Statesboro, Georgia, a small city in the southeast part of the state, and according to his family and attorneys, that has made a big difference in how he has been treated.
Wilson, charged with murder in the death of a teenaged girl who was riding in the truck, has been in jail since June 17. “This is bigger than Marc,” said his aunt SaJuana Williams — meaning it raises the question of whether the principle of “Stand Your Ground” applies to Black men when they are threatened by whites
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