He testified he feared for his own life when he shot the man at dog park.
A Florida man accused of a hate crime for killing a gay man is asking a judge to dismiss the charges, saying he acted in self-defense.
“I don’t know if I told him to stop or not, but he wasn’t stopping,” Radford testified in a hearing before Hillsborough Circuit Judge Samantha Ward. Paul Gumpert, a friend of Lay, testified that it wasn't in Lay's character to be the aggressor, describing Lay as “very mild-mannered and very dismissive of any pressure against him."
Defense attorneys pointed to a a text message Lay sent after the video as proof he planned to attack Radford. Lay wrote in part that he would “try to tackle” Radford if he blocked his path again. In addition, he wrote, “this weekend should be drama.”
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