Shooter Claims Self-Defense in Fatal Shooting

By John Falkenberg

LUBBOCK, TX — A man was shot and killed in Texas this past weekend, and the man who killed him is claiming self-defense.

I cannot definitively say whether or not he was in the right, but judging from the report on this man’s behavior immediately following the shooting, this man not only was on the right side of the law, he knew exactly what to do in the event of a deadly shooting.

As Everything Lubbock reports:

Police were called to an apartment at about 4:20 a.m. Saturday.

The first officer on the scene wrote in the police report, “I asked who was shot and who had fired the weapon. (A man) stood with his hands above his head and advised (the person who was shot and killed) had broken into the apartment and (the man) shot him in self-defense.”

“I observed [the dead body] to be face down with his head toward the far bedroom wall. I checked but did not detect a pulse,” the police report said. “I observed several empty shell casings laying on the bedroom floor. I observed a silver semi-automatic hand gun laying on the bed. I left the handgun undisturbed for detectives to collect upon …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation