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Originally Posted by midniteowl
An honest question, if the lady did have a gun and she shot him, would she have gotten into trouble? Would she be charged?
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Based on my interaction with Arizona citizens, she would be getting a medal.
Arizona is a pretty strong Stand-Your-Ground State. As long as a "reasonable person" fears for their life they can use deadly force. So at the time of him trying to open the door, I see no reason for her to be charged if she shot him (outside of him being rich and white...). It would be almost impossible for a prosecutor to convince someone to have charges laid and would never get a jury to convict.
Now if it got to the point of him walking away and pulling down his pants and that's when she shot, then that would be a bit more grey but honestly, not a slam dunk either.
There was a case, not too long ago, where a person, David Mota, almost caused an accident, this resulted in road rage with the person speeding up to confront Mr. Mota and calling him a "####ing [racial slur]." Mr. Mota, shot and killed the person. There was no evidence that this person had a weapon, no evidence he threatened Mr. Mota. Ironically, the only reason for Mr. Mota to assume his life was threatened was that he was assuming that the other driver had a gun just like he did (it's Arizona afterall). Mr. Mota was also drinking and driving, if I recall correctly.
But Mr. Mota was found not guilty eventually.
So I'd find it hard to see how (assuming relatively petite) woman would not be fearful of her safety when confronted by multiple men trying to break into her vehicle and that's really all she needs to shoot them.