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LA: Reserve woman who shot neighbor in chest claims self-defense, acquitted at trial
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A woman who claimed she acted in self-defense when she shot her neighbor outside her Reserve home in 2015 was acquitted at trial Thursday.
A jury in St. John the Baptist Parish deliberated for 15 minutes before finding Tyranika Williams 27, not guilty on charges of aggravated battery in the shooting of Dwayne Cook on Oct. 8.
On the night of the shooting, Cooks - who survived the shooting - testified that his neighbor, Williams, came out of her house about 11 p.m. and shot him in the chest after he approached her and asked her for a ride to get cigarettes, according to a statement from Williams' attorney, Michael Smith |
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"Assistant DA Leandre Millet argued that it hadn’t been reasonable or necessary for Williams to shoot Cooks, who was unarmed at the time"
1. drunk 2. high 3. continues approach on drawn gun after 'assault' poverty sucks...if had a garage, no 3 day trial. The taxpayers of new orleans should be pissed, not only about the wasted funds, but the corruption. Shouldn't they reimburse taxpayers and/or be fired at a minimum? - This woman still had face pain 7 months later after punched in home invasion, choked out, and the perps used her car to commit 2 murders later. Has to pay out of pocket. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjUzkVrEV1o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKSocq6GOfU |
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I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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