Michael Drejka, who invoked 'stand your ground' defense in shooting of unarmed man, found guilty of manslaughter.
A Florida jury deliberated for just six hours before finding a man guilty of manslaughter in the 2018 killing of an unarmed father he shot in front of his family in a dispute over a handicap parking space.
Just hours after gunning down Markeis McGlockton, Drejka told detectives he opened fire on July 19, 2018, when the unarmed man shoved him to the ground outside a Circle A store in Clearwater and took one step toward him, a scenario the jury apparently rejected after viewing security video multiple times that showed the victim step back when he saw Drejka pull a firearm.
Bryant Camareno, an attorney for Drejka, who is white, told the jury during his opening statement that the case was"not about race" and prosecutors did not present evidence to the contrary. "It's been well over a year since we've been dealing with this matter and I can safely say my family can rest now," Michael McGlockton said Friday."Now we can start putting the pieces back together and move on."
"I could see his legs. I know he was a black guy, that's all," he told the detectives, according to the video."If he hadn't twitched, I would have never pulled the trigger," Drejka had said."The feet said he was coming toward me and so did the hips." During the interrogation, which occurred almost six hours after the shooting, Drejka explained that he has a"pet peeve" about people parking in handicap spaces despite not being disabled himself. He said that when he saw Jacobs sitting in a car in the handicap space, he examined the front and rear of her car to see if it had a disabled person parking permit.
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