Indiana’s Marion County prosecutor ruled that a woman acted in self-defense when she shot and killed a man whom witnesses described as pinning her against a fence.
The incident, which occurred January 10, resulted in the death of 37-year-old Jermaine Taylor.
WISH-TV reports that police received calls of shots fired on Indianapolis’s North Side around 8 a.m. There were actually separate calls of shots fired, one at Talbot Street and another at Delaware and 30th.
When police arrived at Delaware, they found Taylor’s body with multiple gunshot wounds.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police began searching for 33-year-old Monica Hampton in connection with the shooting. But after arresting Hampton and listening to witnesses recount what happened, the Marion County prosecutor declined to charge her, ruling the shooting an act of self-defense.
WIBC reports that witnesses saw Taylor and Hampton fighting, and, at one point, Taylor pinned her against a fence. Shortly thereafter, shots rang out, and Taylor collapsed by a car.
The autopsy confirmed that Taylor took bullets to the “pelvis and left thigh.”
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