Saginaw, Michigan

From Flint’s ABC12.com of June 27, 2006

Woman kills man in self defense

Couple's fight ends in violence

A couple's fight turned deadly in the city of Saginaw overnight. It happened on the 2300 Block of Hanchett on Saginaw's west side around 1 a.m.

This is not the first time police have visited the home. This is the city's 13th murder of 2006. But this one is not like any of the previous 12.

One reason is that the prosecutor will not file charges against the woman who pulled the trigger. That woman turned herself into police after she admitted to shooting 27-year-old Damion West once in the chest, killing him.

Prosecutor Mike Thomas says the woman acted in self defense and a source close to the investigation says West had a history of assaulting the woman.

That fact also weighed into the prosecutor's decision. The victim in this case was actually wanted by Saginaw police as well.

He was facing three counts of attempted murder in connection with a shooting on Porter Street in Saginaw just two weeks ago.

West also had numerous closed cases in the Saginaw County court system dating all the way back to 1996.