If you haven’t heard about this story A 14-year-old boy is dead after being accused of stealing water.
Prosecutors say surveillance video shows he put the bottles back and did not steal anything.
If the video shows no theft and there was no immediate threat, why was a pursuit happening in the first place? Some situations call for a phone call to police, not a chase. A 14-year-old should have made it home that day.
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1. A murder following a chase over a mistaken shoplifting accusation, as the prosecution argues, or
2. A lawful defense-of-others shooting because Chow reasonably believed his son was about to be shot, as the defense argues.
What do you guys think?
Do you think he’s a murderer or was he defending himself and his family?
* In May 2023, 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton went into a Shell gas station/convenience store in Columbia, South Carolina, owned by Chikei Rick Chow.
The judge ruled that jurors generally will not hear about that prior interaction.
So the core issue for the jury is not whether Chow fired the shot. Everyone agrees he did. The question is whether this was: