Followup OH: Earl M. Lindsey Case, Justified Self Defense

Earl M. Lindsey testified that he feared for his life when an unarmed man threw a punch at him and a large group of people, some with guns, surrounded him in a South Side intersection.

So, Lindsey said, he pulled a handgun and fired a single shot into Rashawn M. Wilson’s chest. Wilson, 18, died six days later.

“I didn’t have any other option,” Lindsey told a Franklin County jury last week.

On Monday, the jury acquitted him of murder, determining that he acted in self-defense.
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