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Syracuse man was killed with 2 guns in broad daylight. Was it murder or self-defense?
By Anne Hayes
Syracuse, N.Y. ? Josue Pizarro was walking on Sabine Street around noon in April 2024 looking to sell drugs when he made a deadly decision.Pizarro grabbed a community gun, hidden on the side of a home on the 200 block of Sabine, as he was approached by a man he knew had served time for a murder when he was 15 years old.
The man, Jesus Carmona, was confronting Pizarro about a fight he had with Carmona’s friend, Pizarro’s attorney Nicholas DeMartino said.
Carmona had his hand hidden in his jacket as he got closer and closer, DeMartino said. As he began pulling his hand out, Pizarro pulled out the community gun and fired two shots before the community gun jammed, DeMartino said.
Carmona fell and dropped his own gun. Pizarro picked it up and fired around 5 more shots, prosecutor Anthony Copani said. Carmona died from his injuries.
Pizarro is now on trial for second-degree murder.
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DeMartino and Pizarro insist he acted in self-defense. Copani says the shooting was an “overkill” that constitutes murder.
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Circumstances aside, the prosecutor is now able to determine the amount of self-defense one is allowed to survive an attack?
“The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.”
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There’s kill.
And then there’s overkill.
Pizarro’s actions were premeditated murder, but so was Carmona’s. They weren’t going to back down and Carmona was going to kill Pizarro if he was shown any mercy.
So, it should be considered self-defense. But he’s a felon with an unregistered firearm. He should do time for that.