Sterling Parker, 25, of Toledo, Ohio, was shot outside Walle Rockets Bar on Upton and Sylvania Avenue shortly after 2 a.m. on October 23, 2019. He was reportedly shot in the chest after he tried to intervene in a fight between two women, one of whom was his sister. Witnesses said Parker attempted to walk across the street to get help from a family member, collapsed in a yard, and later died at the hospital.

Shantoria Hankins, 27, was arrested and charged with aggravated murder and felonious assault in connection with the shooting. At trial the jury acquitted Hankins of murder, finding she had acted in self-defense; the jury also treated the felonious assault in the same way. Sterling’s sister Joaquina Parker was arrested at the scene for menacing after she was heard yelling threats at another woman. Walle Rockets was temporarily closed for 10 days after the incident.

What details about that night or the people involved might help clarify why the jury accepted a self-defense claim?