Texas Gov. Greg Abbott aims to pardon Army Sgt. Daniel Perry, who was convicted Friday of murdering a man at a Black Lives Matter protest in Austin in 2020.
Foster had an AK-47 strapped to his chest when he approached Perry’s side window. Open carry is legal in Texas.
Daniel Perry, U.S. Army sergeant, fatally shot Garrett Foster during a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Austin on July 25, 2020. , shots rang out and protesters screamed and scattered. Perry drove off, and Foster was taken to the hospital and later pronounced dead.Perry later turned himself in and told police that he had fired five shots from his handgun because Foster pointed his own weapon at him,Perry’s defense attorneys said he had no choice but to shoot Foster as he approached Perry’s car with an AK-47 rifle,
. But prosecutors said Perry could have driven away before firing his revolver. Perry’s defense team argued that Foster raised his rifle at Perry; witnesses testified that Foster never raised his rifle, the newspaper reported.
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