A Florida jury heard two vastly different interpretations of a security video at the start of the trial over a man who fatally shot an unarmed father in front of his family during a confrontation about a handicapped parking space.
A Florida jury heard two vastly different interpretations of a security video at the start of the trial of a man who fatally shot an unarmed father in front of his family during a confrontation over a handicapped parking space.
Jacobs, 26, said the incident unfolded when Drejka approached her car and began yelling at her for parking in a handicapped spot. She said she was inside the car with her two younger children, an infant and a 3-year-old. She said Drejka"scared" her. "So I grabbed a T-shirt and put it on his wound to stop the bleeding," said Jacobs, a certified nursing assistant.Drejka initially invoked Florida's so-called "stand your ground" self-defense law that went into effect in 2005, allowing people to use lethal force if they consider their lives to be in imminent jeopardy. But Drejka and his attorneys have since scrapped that argument in favor of a plain self-defense case.
"I submit that the evidence will show that the use of force was justifiable because ... Mr. Drejka reasonably believed that force was necessary," Camareno said."The only true, just verdict is that of not guilty." Schaub said it wasn't the first time Drejka got into an altercation over the same handicapped parking space.
Kelly said Drejka never pulled a gun on him and that he never saw a weapon. He said he walked away from the confrontation.
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