"Role Model" Shot in Justifiable Homicide

Also families of dead people don't like self-defense. No charges filed in fatal high rise shooting: police

It seems that self-defense is becoming even more of a thing in Chicago.

When you strip out the stuff along the lines of "he was a great brother, and we loved him," you are left with what he was doing the night he was shot, and the fact that he worked in a school as assistant principal.

[Abnerd] Joseph was the assistant principal of culture at Intrinsic School, 79 W. Monroe St., according to the police report. The school website said he joined Intrinsic’s downtown campus in the summer of 2022.

What is assistant principal of culture doing on a daily basis?

That isn't what I'm interested in, though it does say something about bureaucratic bloat, lets concentrate on the night in question.

The shooting happened about 7:30 p.m. Thursday on the 48th floor of the building at 60 E. Monroe St. as Abnerd Joseph was “wildly” knocking on residents’ doors, attempting to enter apartments and “yelling incoherently,” according to a police report.

It will be weeks before any toxicology is available, but that screams intoxication to me. But it really doesn't matter why he was screaming.

When the doorman and four tenants went to check, he allegedly struck the doorman several times. A tenant then tried to calm him down and was also hit and fell down, the report said.

Another tenant warned Joseph that he was armed and told him to stop hitting people. The police report said Joseph “turned and charged” at the tenant, who opened fire, hitting him several times.

The guy who did the shooting was briefly taken into custody, and then released, because even in Chicago, self-defense is becoming a real thing. (HeyJackass! has the current stats for self-defense in the windy city as 2 killed, 12 shot and wounded, and 2 dogs shot; I don't remember if the dogs survived. I also don't know if the stats have been updated to include this incident yet.)

The bulk of the article really is, "He was a great brother," and "He was a role model to the students."

Self-defense is a human-right, and even in Chicago, it may be your legal right.