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Homeowner Who Shot Unarmed Elderly Man With Alzheimer's Wandering His Property Won't Be Charged (Click on this link to read more)

By Nicole Flatow    on February 28, 2014 at 3:28 pm
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The Walker County, Ga., District Attorney said Friday he will not press charges against the homeowner who shot and killed an elderly man wandering on his property. 72-year-old Ronald Westbrook, who has Alzheimer's disease, had been walking around the Chickamauga area, a rural neighborhood in north Georgia, when he walked onto Joe Hendrix's property at around 2:30 a.m. Hendrix's fiancée called 911 and a deputy was dispatched. But before he arrived, Hendrix took matters into his own hands, walking out the front door and firing three or four shots at Westbrook, one of which hit him in the chest.