MIAMI — A Broward County female is demanding action immediately after her 19-calendar year-old son was shot and killed past year by an Uber driver, who invoked Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law.
Prosecutors cited that law and the information of the case in their selection to not cost the driver and get the scenario to courtroom.
“For me, he was my complete daily life,” stated April Mcglashan, whose son, Miles Mcglashan, died at Hollywood Memorial Regional Medical center on Jan 19. He underwent quite a few surgeries as aspect of the therapy for the gunshot wound he endured from. “I would like justice to be served,” Mcglashan added.
Miles Mcglashan took an Uber from his mother’s house in Plantation to Hollywood on Nov. 9.
Law enforcement say for the duration of the journey he experienced a disagreement with the driver, acquired out around Emerald Oaks on Park Street, the place he was headed to see his grandparents.
There was a confrontation and the driver, discovered as Christopher Bernadel, shot Mcglashan.
In accordance to the closeout memo from the Broward Condition Lawyer, Bernadel stated he was punched a number of periods to the remaining aspect of his head just before he achieved for his gun. He informed prosecutors that he did so because he was in worry for his lifetime.
He has not been billed with homicide for the reason that of the state’s Stand Your Floor law, which permits people to legally use deadly pressure in sure circumstances.
“That’s just scary,” April Mcglashan stated. “We are at a place proper now where you can destroy somebody and just say, ‘I’m just standing my floor.'”
April Mcglashan and her lawyer want the condition lawyer to reopen the scenario and have a grand jury make your mind up no matter if the Uber driver should really be billed.
The Condition lawyer, Mcglashan and her lawyer, would like for Uber to contemplate putting surveillance online video into their vehicles.
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