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Queens Man Pleads Guilty to Weapons Charge, Faces Four Years After 2023 Fatal Shooting

Prosecutors declined homicide charges after accepting his self-defense claim.

Baltimore Prosecutors Decline Charges in Fells Point Shooting Citing Self-Defense

Owner Fatally Shoots Suspected Burglar at Canton Jewelry Shop as Police Investigate

Crown Heights Stabbing Suspect Who Confessed May Not Face Charges

The Perfect Neighbor Opens in Theaters, Reconstructing a Florida Killing Through Police Footage

Police Say Ky Frost Acted in Self-Defense in T-Hood Shooting as Case Moves to DA

Autopsy Details in T-Hood Killing Cite Back Wound as Police Weigh Self-Defense

Woman Asserts Self-Defense in Fatal Vacaville Gas Station Shooting

Leaked Footage and Messages Deepen Conflicting Narratives in T-Hood Homicide Probe

Gwinnett Authorities Explore Self-Defense Claim in Ky Frost’s Killing of Rapper T-Hood

Lodi Landlord Fatally Shoots Tenant in Harpoon Break-In Attempt

Hayward Police Probe Self-Defense Claim After Fatal Domestic Stabbing

North Texas Man Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Firearm Possession While High on Mushrooms

Jonathan Joss’s Neighbor Claims Self-Defense in Fatal Shooting