Thursday, January 31, 2013
Phillip Sailors of Lilburn, who has been charged with murder, was released from Gwinnett jail Wednesday afternoon.
Phillip Sailors, the Lilburn resident accused of shooting and killing a young Duluth man who pulled into his driveway, is out of jail Wednesday after posting bail. According to jail records, Sailors bonded out of the Gwinnett County Detention Center at 3:34 p.m. Jan. 30. A judged granted Sailors a $10,000 bond Wednesday afternoon, according to his defense attorney Michael Puglise. Sailors, 69, is charged with murder in the death of 22-year-old Rodrigo Diaz. On Saturday evening, Diaz and three friends pulled into Sailors' driveway on Hillcrest Road in Lilburn. The car's GPS took the friends to the wrong house, according to Diaz's family. Sailors' attorney said that his client thought he and his wife were about to become victims of a home …
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The attorney for Phillip Sailors of Lilburn said his client thought he was about to be run over when he fired the fatal shot.
The attorney of a man charged with the Saturday (Jan. 26) murder in Lilburn says his client feared for his life when he fired the fatal shot that killed a 22-year-old Duluth man. Phillip Sailors, 69, was arrested Sunday and charged with murder. Rodrigo Diaz, 22, the victim, died from his injuries at Gwinnett Medical Center. Diaz's family has said that a GPS took them to Sailors' driveway by mistake and that he was shot as he pulled away from the home. As a man who has done Christian missionary work, Sailors is "just not the type of individual that's going around looking to shoot at people without just reason," said Sailors' attorney Michael Puglise of Snellville. A Vietnam veteran, Sailors had lived in his Hillcrest Road home for 33 years …
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Homeowner Phillip Sailors of Lilburn is currently being held without bond in the shooting death. Sailors thought someone was trying to enter his home unannounced, according to Lilburn PD report.
Lilburn Police detectives continue to investigate a Saturday shooting on Hillcrest Road that resulted in the city's first homicide since 2005. In the incident, 22-year-old Rodrigo Diaz, of Duluth, was shot as he drove away from a residence located at 537 Hillcrest Road in Lilburn. Diaz was transported to Gwinnett Medical Center, where he later died from his injuries. He had been shot in the left side of his head with a .22-caliber revolver, according to police. He was pronounced dead at 6:10 a.m. on Jan. 27, while in the intensive care unit. Homeowner Phillip Sailors, 69, was arrested Sunday and charged in Diaz's death. He reportedly believed that someone was trying to enter his home unannounced. According to the police report released to…
Anthony hale
11:02 pm on Saturday, February 9, 2013
Whats unfair is a man being arrested for what he believed to be defending his property and family. The people at fault for the death are the criminals who create the environment where we have to be this on edge...maybe if we had the guts to prosecute and execute criminals this woild be avoided more ›