Kidnap victim justified in killing attacker: prosecutor

Police say Jacob Evans, 59, was abducted by two armed robbers in his driveway and forced to drive to a bank to withdraw money on Tuesday.

Evans killed one of the attackers outside the bank, and District Attorney General Bill Gibbons decided Wednesday that the shooting was justified.

Police said the attacker, sitting in the car’s back seat, was shot six times when he turned away from Evans to look for an accomplice who had entered the bank to get a withdrawal slip.

Evans, 59, told police he had a gun in his car because he had been robbed in his neighborhood three weeks earlier, perhaps by the same attackers.

Evans said he was scared but his main regret “was I didn’t get the other one.”

Gibbons said Evans also would face no charges for failing to have a permit to carry a concealed weapon. State law prohibits filing such a charge when a firearm is used for justifiable self-defense, Gibbons said.

Evans, a sanitation worker, said he bought the revolver from an acquaintance for $75. The revolver’s ammunition cylinder was stuck, Evans said, so he coated it with baby oil.

He said he was treated well by police investigating the shooting.

“Usually, I have to make my own coffee,” he said.

The second attacker fled, and investigators still were trying to figure out the identities of the two men.

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Information from: The Commercial Appeal, http://www.commercialappeal.com