Cops: Wife Kia Jeffries kills former pro boxer Earnest Abdul-Mateen in self-defense
Police outside Atlanta say they consider the shooting death of a former professional boxer to be a case of self-defense, and no charges have been filed.
Gwinnett County police Cpl. Jake Smith said homicide detectives that Eaest Mahir Abdul-Mateen used a handgun to repeatedly hit his wife Kia Yvette Jeffries early Tuesday moing.
Smith said Abdul-Mateen struck her so many times that he became exhausted, and at that point Jeffries managed to tu the gun on her husband and pull the trigger.
The shooting happened at an extended say hotel near Duluth. Smith said officers found Jeffries with injuries to her head and face. Abdul-Mateen was lying in a hallway, suffering from a gunshot wound.
Smith tells The Gwinnett Daily Post (http://bit.ly/UioAMc) that detectives consider the case a self-defense shooting.
Eaest Mahir Abdul-Mateen
Kia Yvette Jeffries
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