Elisabeth Cannon was charged with two counts of aggravated assault for shooting 15-year-old Vernon Marcus Jr.

Marcus Jr. had been walking infront of her house, she fired a shot allegedly trying to scare and not hit the teens but shot him in the head.

He is now in a critical but stable condition.

But Cannon says the boys were throwing rocks at her home, and had done so for 5 previous days, terrorizing her home.

Speaking to CBS’s WMAZ-TV she said: “I’m not an evil person or a bad person,”

And that “They’d get the biggest rocks,… When they would see us in the yard, they would glare at us and say ‘I know you’re the ones who called police on us.'”

The Teens had been previously warned to stay off the premises.

So, it seems this woman acted in self defense after some bad teens harassed her. However, some anger is being thrown on this story due to 2013 comments made by Cannon.

Speaking to local news in 2013 she was complaining about how dangerous her suburban neighborhood had become.

She told the Macon Telegraph:

“I have some really good black neighbors, but the good blacks won’t get onto the bad blacks,”

“You try not to profile but at the same time 99.9% of the crime is going to be, most often, a black male.”

She said that she is able to differentiate between the “good” and the “bad blacks.”

“You can tell if they’re just out walking for exercise or going to the store or whether they’re up to something,”

Should we be suspicious of her motives due to her 2013 comments or do you have sympathy seeing as there seems to be evidence that she was under harassment from these teens?

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