City official charged with murder after state rejects 'stand your ground' shooting of alleged shopli

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City official charged with murder after state rejects 'stand your ground' shooting of alleged shoplifter

    By Mark Osborne
Oct 20, 2018, 4:04 AM ET

 The Florida city commissioner who confronted and shot an alleged shoplifter at a military surplus store earlier this month was charged with murder Friday.

Michael Dunn, who serves as Lakeland's city commissioner for the Southwest district, was confronting a man police said had taken a hatchet from the store he owns when he shot and killed him. Surveillance footage from the incident, which took place Oct. 3, was released on Monday.

Christobal Lopez, 50, was killed in the shooting.


Michael Dunn, 47, has been charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of a man who allegedly attempted to steal a hatchet from a store he owned in Lakeland, Fla., on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018.

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