Self Defense Shooting?

[winchester4440]

Apart from later details, this guy might be in big trouble.

EPD releases new details on deadly Lodge Avenue shooting

(WEHT) – The Evansville Police Department says a man called 911 on Wednesday to turn himself in for shooting one of the two men who were found dead in the 2100 block of Lodge Avenue.

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[scout5]

Interesting

 

[manifest destiny]

Yikes. Lots of variables and not many details yet. It's good that EPD Sergeant Gray's quote had a neutral tone to it. The real question will be does the prosecutor feel neutral?

 

[BigRed]

Hmmmmm....

Wouldn't it be better to stay at the scene and simply state that you want to contact your lawyer in order to ensure a complete and thorough investigation of the tragic incident....and then shut up until you have talked to your lawyer?

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Hmmmmm....

Wouldn't it be better to stay at the scene and simply state that you want to contact your lawyer in order to ensure a complete and thorough investigation of the tragic incident....and then shut up until you have talked to your lawyer?

It's better to stay at the scene if safe to do so, flight is considered indicative of guilt both culturally and legally, but it does not by itself overcome a claim of self-defense. The more reasonable/rationale the articulated reason for flight is, the better. "He had 15 buddies piling out of an SUV yelling at me" is a good reason. "I was skeered" isn't so much of one. We've had people flee with bad reasons who still got no-filed due to self-defense, though, so it's still just one factor among many.

The best thing to do is to stay, give a "public safety" style statement which I've detailed elsewhere and which Massad Ayoob also details elsewhere which basically establishes you are making a self defense claim, what the bad guy was doing, if there are any more bad guys, where witnesses are, and where evidence may be that could be missed (the medics kicked a shell casing down that storm drain, that's the truck bad guy got out of...) and then lawyer up. Not saying *anything* does yourself a disservice that can hurt you down the road as much as saying the wrong thing.

 

[singlestacksig]

if he immediately went to another location and then called police, it looks different than if he waits for several days to contact police..