Posted January 3, 2017 10:02 pm by Comments

By James England

CANDLER, NORTH CAROLINA — A few weeks ago, we covered an attempted grocery store robbery where the clerk defended himself successfully from a bad guy. The bad guy, 21-year-old Darwin Villatoro, didn’t make it out alive.

If you’re curious about the full backstory, you can read about it here.

Well, there’s that anxious moment after the defensive gun use is done. After the proverbial smoke clears and the police are there, now comes the natural fear that strangers with badges are going to diligently pick through the wreckage to figure out what transpired.

A law enforcement officer isn’t the bad guy. Officers are looking to ensure that the person who was shot and killed is given the due diligence that we would hope they would give if the defender was killed. Bullet casings are collected. Surveillance video, where applicable, is watched and analyzed. There’s a process. And officers then pass that information up to a district attorney who determines if the criteria of the event meets the standard for what the state considers justifiable homicide.

But for the man undergoing this investigation, it can be heart-wrenching. In addition to having to take a human life in order to preserve his own, he now …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation

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