The Hennepin County Attorney's Office will not charge a Minneapolis woman and her son after one of them fatally shot a man who the woman said attempted to break into the home and approached them in a threatening manner.
Martin L. Johnson, 30, died after he was shot in the chest Feb. 22 in the backyard of the home in the 3300 block of S. 25th Avenue, in the city's Corcoran neighborhood. The attorney's office will not file charges because both have "valid self-defense claims," and the two did not have the duty to retreat because they were at the "threshold of their patio door" when the shots were fired, according to a news release Monday.
"The homeowner and her son did not have a duty to retreat because they were inside their own home," according to the release. "All of the surrounding circumstances show that their fear of bodily harm was subjectively real and objectively reasonable."
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