Wheeler admitted to fatally shooting 28-year-old Charles Roberson on May 3, 2009, in the parking lot of her Verdant Drive apartment complex in southwest Atlanta, the news release said.
However, she said she believed that she had the right to do so under the “stand your ground” law.
Wheeler said she thought her brother was in danger when she heard an argument outside. She left her apartment with a gun and opened fire, grazing a nearby woman before arguing with the man who was arguing with her brother earlier, prosecutors said. As the argument escalated, Wheeler shot Roberson in the head. She said she believed Roberson had a weapon and she was in danger and had “no duty to retreat,” authorities said.
Witnesses testified that Wheeler was the aggressor.
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Damn it… there goes the Narrative.
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