Armed Robbery Victim Disarms Attacker, Kills One of Four Assailants

Four people followed a man home to Buford, Georgia after a night out in Atlanta, planning to rob him. It didn't go the way they planned: the intended victim wrestled a revolver away from one of them and used it to end the threat, killing one attacker and wounding another.

Key points

• The incident: Gwinnett County police say four people followed a stranger home from Atlanta to Buford on Sept. 5 to rob him, according to Bearing Arms.
• The outcome: The intended victim took a silver revolver away from one of the robbers, identified as 23-year-old Marvin Wiley, and shot him dead, then also shot another suspect, E'imod Sanchez Toboris Taylor, per testimony from Gwinnett County police Corporal J.K. Bell.
• The charges: Taylor and 23-year-old Brinson Bernard Crumbley face felony murder, armed robbery, aggravated assault and a gun charge; the man who defended himself has not been charged, despite being a convicted felon prohibited from possessing a firearm.
• The argument: Bearing Arms contends felons retain a right to self-defense even though they can't legally own guns, and that this case is a clear example of justified lesser-of-two-evils action.

Quick take

Four armed attackers against one unarmed man is about as bad a position as it gets, and this one still ended with the good guy walking away. Bearing Arms makes a fair point that a felon's right to not be murdered doesn't vanish just because his right to carry a gun legally does. Prosecutors apparently agreed, which is the correct call here.

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