Attorneys asked a jury in Arapahoe County on Tuesday to consider whether a 24-year-old man acted recklessly or reasonably when he shot two people while aiming at a Jeep that was driven into a crowd…
Attorneys asked a jury in Arapahoe County on Tuesday to consider whether a 24-year-old man acted recklessly or reasonably when he shot two people while aiming at a Jeep that was driven into a crowd of protesters in Aurora during the summer of 2020.
Public defender Jason Kosloski told jurors Young was trying to protect people when he fired; Tom Byrnes, assistant district attorney for the 18th Judicial District, said Young never should have pulled the trigger. Young fired five shots, hitting the Jeep twice but also wounding a protester in the leg and grazing another man’s head. A woman who leaped from the highway in the panic also broke her leg.
“Those decisions made to pull his gun, to fire at the Jeep under those circumstances, was not justified by any reasonable or legitimate claim that he was defending himself or other people,” Byrnes said.A man later identified as Samuel Young sits on the shoulder of Interstate 225 shortly after shots were fired during a racial justice protest on Saturday, July 25, 2020.
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