Flight Pundit

Self Defense is correct.

The mother of seven heard screams and someone saying “stop hitting me,” so she sent her teenage son out to their backyard to investigate.

“He came back in and said, ‘We gotta call 911!’ ” Abel said.

Then, she heard the gunshots.

“Pop, pop, pop,” Abel said. “There was a man standing in the middle of the street and a lady screaming ‘You blanking killed him.’ “

Getting the facts makes a difference.

Police arrived in the 3900 block of East Hampton Circle, near Val Vista Drive and U.S. 60, about 11 p.m., just as the shooting occurred. Officers found that the 29-year-old boyfriend of a neighborhood woman had been shot and killed by a 49-year-old homeowner who lives nearby.

The homeowner had come outside after hearing the man and his girlfriend yelling at each other in the front yard.

And the best part

Although police have stopped short of using the term self-defense, they said the homeowner shot and killed the man because he was “going crazy” with a billiards stick and charged at the homeowner.

The man was found dead on the homeowner’s driveway.

“As far as coming out with a gun, he was well within his rights,” said Detective Chris Arvayo, Mesa police spokesman. “He was in his yard. He never left his property. He came out with a gun, which is his constitutional right.”

It is sad that the 29 year old was killed. He will be missed by someone, somewhere,

but his death means other people might live without fear.

Abel said she used the incident as an opportunity to talk with her children about anger management.

That is good parenting.

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