When a woman confronted her attacker in an Iowa grocery store, the gun owner shoots woman in self-defense, police said.
According to KCCI 8, which cited Des Moines police, the woman claims she fired one round after being “blindsided, beat up, and put in a headlock” inside the Hy-Vee food store in Des Moines on Sunday morning.
“Unprovoked attack” on legally-armed woman resulted in 30-year-old attacker Kapri Francis being shot in the leg, police said, according to the local television station, KCCI 8.
According to KCCI 8, the two women involved have known each other for a while. A homicide charge was filed against Francis, but no charges were laid against the woman who fired her weapon at him.
There was a fight between the suspect and one of the victims (the shooter) before the shooting, according to Des Moines police Sgt. Paul Parizek, according to the newspaper The Des Moines Register.
Detectives “learned that the shooter in this incident acted in self-defense after being violently assaulted,” the police reportedly said, talking to witnesses and reviewing the evidence.
Derived from a “knowledge of a history of conflict,” Parizek described Francis’ relationship with the alleged shooter, according to the Des Moines Register.