A California man who was caught on video attacking a sheriff’s deputy and shooting at her with her own gun in 2019 was found not guilty of attempted murder and other charges by a jury. The victim, Meagan McCarthy recently spoke out in a new interview saying she couldn’t believe he was found not guilty.
“All the information that dispatch relayed to me was a woman was on the phone saying ‘Oh my god, oh my god; get my son out of here,'” said McCarthy. “As I’m walking up to the front door of that house, I see the front door open, and out comes the male — the suspect — and the woman who I assume is the reporting party. And she has a knife in her hand and she’s on the phone with dispatch.”
“I make it just onto the driveway and he confronts me head on. He’s very, very angry; he’s very upset. His fists are clenched. I walk around behind him, and put his hands at the small of his back. I tell him to relax, it’s OK, ask him what’s going on, just to pat him down for weapons and that set him off and began the assault,” she continued.
A neighbor caught the entire incident on video, one of the main parts that stick out is when McCarthy fell to the ground and the two were fighting over the gun and Young was able to snatch it from her.
“I turn and I run, and I run for the nearest cover I can find which is a bush. And I hear a gunshot go off, and I knew he was shooting at me,” said McCarthy.
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Other deputies soon arrived and shot Young multiple times. “It does look bad when you look at it at first glance,” said Young’s defense attorney, Raj Maline. “If you don’t ever look at it again or don’t study it, certainly it looks like my client is shooting at the deputy.” But Maline said during the trial it was revealed that McCarthy ran toward a bush that was not in the direction that Young fired the handgun.
“We know exactly where she went, which was due south,” said Maline. “And we know where he fired because there’s a bullet hole in the garage which shows he fired, which was northeast which was in the direction he was walking, which was completely opposite of where she was.”