Police: No Charges Against Woman who Shot, Killed Man Selling Stolen Guns

An employee at John Jovino Co. holds a revolver on Thursday, June 26, 2008 in New York. Th
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Deputies in Lincoln County, North Carolina, have filed no charges against a woman who emerged from a bedroom and killed a man trying to sell stolen guns in one of the front rooms of her residence.

The shooting was ruled self-defense, as the deceased man–51-year-old Marion Yarborough–was allegedly holding another resident of the home at gunpoint.

According to the Associated Press, the incident occurred around 2:45 pm Saturday and revolved around an effort to sell guns that had allegedly been stolen earlier in the day. Yarborough and another man entered a home near Lincolnton, NC, and were trying to sell the guns when an argument erupted. Yarborough then pulled a gun and ordered a male resident to the floor. That is when the unidentified female resident emerged from the bedroom with a handgun and shot Yarborough dead.

Police arrived to find Yaborough’s body in the front yard.

The Gaston Gazette reports that the man accompanying Yarborough and a female–who had waited outside–both fled the scene when the woman opened fire.

The guns had been been stolen in Gastonia earlier Saturday.

AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and host of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

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