Gilbert was acquitted under a Texas law that allows you to use deadly force to protect your property during a nighttime theft. In this case, the property was either the $150 or the use-rights to the body of 23 year old Lenora Ivie Frago. Frago said she couldn’t give back the money because she had to give it to the driver who was waiting for her.
Gilbert’s lawyers conceded that he shot Frago but insisted he was not actually trying to kill her. Frago was initialized paralyzed due to a gunshot wound to the neck and later died due to her injury.
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