Sailors Attorney: Increased Crime Made Client Wary
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 …
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