The group was “hanging out of the window, waving their arms” and yelling racial slurs at the couple and shouting “your lives don’t matter.” The group also allegedly called Wilson a “n*****” and his girlfriend a "n***** lover" before throwing an object that struck Wilson’s car. on June 14 when a group of white men approached them in a Silverado pickup truck, said Johnson. Wilson and his girlfriend were driving home from picking up food at a Taco Bell in Statesboro at 12:30 a.m. “This is bigger than Marc,” said his aunt SaJuana Williams - meaning it raises the question of whether the principle of “stand your ground” applies to Black men when they are threatened by whites.įrancys Johnson, Wilson’s attorney, recounted last week at a press conference what he alleges happened the night of the shooting. Wilson, charged with murder in the death of a teenaged girl who was riding in the truck, has been in jail since June 17. including deadly force.” But Wilson, 21, a college student from Statesboro, Ga., a small city in the southeast part of the state, is Black, and according to his family and attorneys, that has made a big difference in how he has been treated. in defense of a habitation, or … in defense of property other than a habitation, has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and use force. He had a licensed handgun with him, and he might have assumed that he was covered by Georgia’s “stand your ground” law, which reads, in part, “A person who uses threats or force. William Marcus “Marc” Wilson believed he was standing his ground when he fired at a pickup truck he says was trying to run his car off the road as he drove home with his girlfriend one night last month.
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