A man who shot four members of Boro Park Shomrim when they
surrounded him after receiving numerous complaints of public lewdness, claimed
self-defense at his trial Tuesday.
David Flores, 36, is charged with with attempted murder in
the incident in September 2010
“They couldn’t wait for the police to arrive,” prosecutor
Lindsay Ashwa said of the Shomrim Volunteers. “He had a loaded firearm. He was
going to do anything he could to avoid being arrested for public lewdness.”
But defense lawyer Douglas Appel countered that his client
didn’t draw his weapon until a mob of “Jewish Orthodox males” suddenly attacked
him.
“They surrounded his car and they were banging on his
windows,” said Appel. “They dragged him across the street and they were
savagely beating him,” Appel claimed in opening arguments, noting no 911 calls
were made until after shots have been fired.
“Please get me to the police, they’re trying to kill me,” a
bloodied Flores purportedly told medics, Appel said.
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