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Man charged with murder claims defense against racist attack

by Associated Press
| July 7, 2020 12:03 PM

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A biracial man charged with murder in the shooting of a 17-year-old white girl on a Georgia highway says he fired in self-defense after her friends in a pickup truck yelled racial slurs and tried to run his car off the road.

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