PA Bill Number: HB335
Title: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons.
Description: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons. ...
Last Action: Removed from table
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
Georgia Self-Defense: Shooting in Dacula road rage incident deemed self-defense :: 11/13/2015
Gwinnett County police arrested and charged 24-year-old Jack Vawter for his role in a deadly road rage incident in Dacula Wednesday night. The shooter was not charged.(Photo: Gwinnett County Polcie)
Police investigating a deadly road rage incident from Wednesday night have decided not to charge the shooter, after they deemed the act was in self-defense. WXIA
DACULA, Ga. -- Police investigating a deadly road rage incident from Wednesday night have decided not to charge the shooter, after they deemed the act was in self-defense.
Gwinnett County police said 34-year-old Jesse Campbell fatally shot Richard Fawbush in the chest because he feared Fawbush was trying to attack him with a homemade weapon. Fawbush was transported to Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville, but later died.
VIDEO: Gwinnett police on deadly road rage
Police investigating a deadly road rage incident from Wednesday night have decided not to charge the shooter, after they deemed the act was in self-defense. (Photo: 11Alive)
Investigators determined that 24-year-old Fawbush and Richard Vawter followed Campbell to his home after the initial disagreement on Braselton Highway. The incident escalated in Campbell's driveway on Windsong Park Drive.
"The suspects approached him with a homemade weapon of some sort," said Cpl. Michele Pihera, a Gwinnett County Police spokeswoman.
That's when Campbell pulled out his gun and fired at least one shot," Pihera said.
"Based on what he said to our first-responders and investigators, he felt his life was in jeopardy and he had to use lethal force," said Pihera.
A neighbor called 911 after the shooting happened.
Campbell and Vawter were both taken to Gwinnett Police headquarters for interviews, and Vawter was later charged with aggravated assault for his role in the incident. He is being held in Gwinnett County jail and is expected to make a first appearance Friday morning at 9:00.
