People get into the craziest situations--like charging with a gun at a group of punks shooting July 5 (not a typo) fireworks at your apartment building.
According to this brief news report, the now defendant actually shot and wounded someone (who, of course, claims that it was her friends, not her, who was shooting the fireworks, she was minding her own business, didn't do nothing, etc.). As a result, he's coming to trial in January on a charge of criminal discharge of a firearm.
He is, of course, claiming self-defense as justification of his use of force.
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