Prosecutors said Hughes had been drinking and watching the Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl at the bar that night, along with Brewer. After leaving the bar, Hughes urinated on the rear wall of the building.
Lloyd Preston Brewer III, who owns the building but not the bar, confronted Hughes and then shot him once in the torso, killing him. He later claimed that he had acted in self-defense, telling police he feared for his life when he saw a group of people gathering in the parking lot and noticed Hughes urinating on the wall.
“He came at me in a threatening manner and appeared he was reaching for something on his side,” Brewer told police, according to The Miami Herald. Brewer said he warned Hughes before drawing his weapon.
But prosecutors said security footage and eyewitness testimony directly contradicted that account.
“There is no justifiable claim to self-defense because the kid was never armed and never advanced on the shooter, the shooter advanced on him,” Assistant Monroe County State Attorney Joseph Mansfield said.
Honestly lying about a shooting should double the time in prison and qualify it as a murder. There is no world where the gamble murderers should be making is saying they were scared. Guns aren’t stuffed animals and people shouldn’t be owning them because they’re scared. Anyone making that claim to shoot an unarmed person (including cops) should be barred from ever owning a gun because they are safety hazard.
It should be them saying “I was so angry I saw only red, I didn’t mean to shoot him” to try and get manslaughter instead of murder.
Everything else aside: fearing for one’s life is the single best reason to use a weapon I can come up with, pretty sure that’s why it’s such a common lie
He tried the cop defense, right down to the contradicting video evidence. Guess it only works for them.
Honestly lying about a shooting should double the time in prison and qualify it as a murder. There is no world where the gamble murderers should be making is saying they were scared. Guns aren’t stuffed animals and people shouldn’t be owning them because they’re scared. Anyone making that claim to shoot an unarmed person (including cops) should be barred from ever owning a gun because they are safety hazard.
It should be them saying “I was so angry I saw only red, I didn’t mean to shoot him” to try and get manslaughter instead of murder.
Everything else aside: fearing for one’s life is the single best reason to use a weapon I can come up with, pretty sure that’s why it’s such a common lie