Snellville Attorney Represents Lilburn Man Charged with Murder
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 recent increase in crime in his neighborhood allegedly made him wary.
Attorney Michael Puglise, based out of Snellville, is representing Phillip Sailors, 69, who has been arrested and charged with murder. Puglise says his client feared for his life when he fired the fatal shot that killed a 22-year-old Duluth man. Rodrigo Diaz, 22, the victim, died over the weekend from his injuries at Gwinnett Medical Center. See also: 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. A Vietnam veteran, Sailors had lived in his Hillcrest Road …
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