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Woman convicted of murder over citizen’s arrest gone wrong

Source: Law & Crime

A Georgia woman covered her face with her hands and sobbed as she was found guilty on Wednesday of killing a stranger during a citizen’s arrest that had gone fatally wrong.

Hannah Payne, 24, claimed she never intended to shoot 62-year-old Kenneth Herring, who back in May 2019 caused a minor traffic crash by running a red light – only to take down his license plate number.

But after the jury heard from witnesses that she chased Herring down and punched him before pulling the trigger, they determined

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