so now that michael dunn has a lawyer, he now has a story. told through his lawyer, that he thought he saw a shotgun in the car, and felt his life was threatened. but he didn't feel his life was threatened enough to call the police after being in a shootout with dangerous kids who had a shotgun, and were still on the loose, according to his story. a story that he and his lawyer surely will be rewriting as they approach trial. the police say the kids did not have a gun. the killer's lawyer has offered this clever counter to the police. how hard did they look? the lawyer says the kids could have thrown away their shotgun, even though they did not leave the scene, and they and their car were searched by the police. after michael dunn killed jordan davis, he behaved exactly the way a hitman would behave. he fled the scene like a guilty murderer. a guilty murderer who may have had a few too many drinks. last week, jordan davis was very excited about landing a job at mcdonald's. on friday night, his parents got the call that no parent can bear to e

the latest is michael dunn was arrested on saturday.had his first court appearance on monday entering a plea of not guilty to the count of murder and attempted murder. and he's currently being held without bond. his attorney has been speaking out for him and he says that his client definitely felt that his life was threatened. first he says that he was threat upped verbally and then he was threatened with a gun. listen to what the attorney said. >> kill that mother [ bleep ]. that mother [ bleep ] is dead. you dead [ bleep ]. and he sees that much of a shotgun coming up over the rim of the suv, which is up higher than his jetta. and it's all he sees are heavily tinted front windows that are up and the back windows that are down and the car has at least four black men in it. and he doesn't know how old anybody is, he doesn't know anything, but he knows when he sees one. >> so michael dunn defended himself. he was licensed to carry a weapon. there was no finding of a weapon inside the teenagers' vehicle. >> do we know if dunn called polic

according to the account of the suspect, 45-year-old michael dunn, he and his fiancee pulled into the parking lot of a jacksonville florida convenience store last friday night where dunn confronted four teenagers in an suv and got into a heated dispute about the volume of the music in the teenager's suv. during the altercation dunn fired eight rounds into the car killing one of the teens 17-year-old jordan davis. dunn and his fiancee fled the scene because they were concerned for their safety and returned to their home over 100 miles away, never reporting the incident to the police. dunn was arrested the following day and was charged yesterday with second-degree murder and attempted murder. dunn's attorney claims that during the dispute, dunn felt threatened by the teens when he saw the barrel of a shotgun pointed at him from inside the suv. >> he was threatened. he was threatened. he sees that much of a shotgun coming up over the rim of the suv which is up higher than his jetta and it's all -- all he sees are -- heavily tinted front windows that are up and the back windows that are d

he was delight. >> michael dunne, played the midget.is story real or fake. >> it's like the sign in china 'if this is true. it is clearly not. there is no more after this. but if it were true. >> i would say for you china needs tort reform in the worst way. >> the guy is yang fang and he got the hunk of chi. >> he can call on me. >> bill, the weird thing about bill. you had plastic surgery which means your spouse one day would be pleasantly surprised by your better attractive children. >> sadly the ugly as sin. i should have better taste in women. i love the sub text. this ruling could be bad for chinese women. i don't think so. when you got three chinese women to every 3,000 chinese men. nothing is going to be bad for them. if she stayed as litigate for them. it would be in a land run by men. >> i don't know what means. maybe i don't want to find out. >> we're going to have another story we're going to do. stick around. we'll be back. ♪ ♪ you can help others along the way. ♪ ♪ a portion of every bottle that they sell goes to fight ♪ ♪

michael dunn lodges a complaint, says something. it escalates from there. you heard the attorney claim that these young men answered back with foul language and made threats and then apparently somebody produces a gun and so michael dunn, who had his own weapon, pulls it out and fires eight or nine times into that vehicle. he drives off and he tells authorities the reason he drove off, he didn't realize he had struck anybody, but he had. he had struck that 17-year-old youth who died a few minutes later. >> were any guns found in the teenagers' car? >> no, they didn't find a gun inside the teens' vehicle. the attorney makes the claim it's quite possible they could have tossed that gun before the police arrive on the scene but the youths maintain they didn't have a gun at all. >> did dunn call the police or -- >> he didn't. that is what has struck many people. they thought, okay. you leave the scene. his attorney says he left the scene because he was afraid, he didn't know after firing into the vehicle how the young men might react. they might come out shooti

been charged with murder in the death of a 17-year-old jordan davis who, according to police, michael dunn pulled up to a convenience store last friday and told a group of teenagers in an suv to turn down their music. police say an argument broke out, dunn pulled a gun and fired eight or nine shots. the young man, jordan davis, was in the back seat of the car and died after being shot twice. police say dunn then drove away from the scene. he was arrested the next morning. so the legal process is taking its course. dunn has plead not guilty, claiming he acted in self-defense but police say the teens were unarmed. this happened in florida, the state that brought us the stand your ground law, a law that the nra pushed hard and has now spread across the country it's a law still playing a central role in the trayvon martin case. we will be watching this case very carefully and bring you updates. block stomach acid from splashing up- relieving the pain quickly. try fast, long lasting gaviscon®. try this... bayer? this isn't just a headache. trust me, this is new bayer migraine. [ male announcer

meanwhile, the shooter in that case, that's 45-year-old michael dunn, he was arrested on saturday, hadst court appearance on monday. he entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of murder and attempted murder and is currently being held without bond. his attorney has been outspoken on this particular case. and one of the aspects that she describes is the verbal altercation that took place, this was last friday night, and she talked about how it began with some nasty words but es kaleated with, she claims, one of the teens showing a gun. >> kill that mother [ bleep ], that [ bleep ] dead. you dead [ bleep ] see that much of a shotgun coming up over the rim of the suv, which is up higher than his jet to, and it's -- all he sees are heavily tinted front windows that are up, and the back windows that are down, and the car has at least four black men in it. and he doesn't know how old anybody is. he doesn't know anything but he knows a shotgun when he sees one. >> dunn reportedly then opens fire, authorities said he left the scene because, one, he said he didn't know that he had struck any

. >> has anybody been arrested or -- >> michael dunn has been taken into custody.rence. remember in the george zimmerman case, you had this -- for over a month. now this man was taken into custody, he's been charged with murder, currently being held without bond, so, you know, he's moving forward in the legal process, charged with one count of murder and one count of attempted murder. >> how is the community responding or reacting to this? you have these already these comparisons and these parallels that are being drawn. is that from some sort of racial divide or -- >> a couple of things. you know, certainly the sensitivity still exists in the state of florida. there is still the issue of stand your ground, not resolved in the zimmerman case and that may be the defense used in this particular case. on top of that, it is another 17-year-old african youth gunned down and killed by a person of a different race or ethnicity, so you have that, and then on top of that, it happened in jacksonville, which happens to be the jurisdiction of angela curry, angela curry is the

. >> 45-year-old michael dunn pleaded not guilty to a murder charge. threatened and that the teens flashed a shotgun. investigators say no guns were found inside that suv. >>> while you were sleeping, lindsay lohan was arrested again. new york police department took her in after some kind of fight around 4:00 am at a club here in the city, charged with misdemeanor assault with reports saying she reportedly hit a woman. she was arrested in september in new york for hitting someone with a car and not stopping. she did not face charges for that. >>> a date with a cougar to save the animals. that's right. you can now win a date with betty white. society for the prevention of cruelty to animals announced on its website wednesday that fans, berman is taking notes, can bid to go on a date with the 90-year-old actress and all proceeds from the date auction will benefit the los angeles chapter of the spca. it's a great cause. why do you laugh? >> if only i weren't married. >> sorry, mrs. berman. >> sorry, betty white. >>> christine romans has the details for us

and the man now charged with murdering davis is michael dunn.merman. he was parked in his car when he got into an argument parked in another car that was blasting music over the weekend. he told police he heard threats and then he thought he saw a gun in the teens' car so he shot back, not once, eight times. killing davis. >> he sees that much of a shotgun coming up over the rim of the suv, which is up higher than his jetta, and it is all he sees are heavily tinted front windows that are up and the back windows that are down and the car has at least four black men in it. and he doesn't know how old anybody is, he doesn't know anything, but he knows a shotgun when he sees one. >> well, police never found a gun in the teenager's car. davis' family doesn't see the justification for the shooting. >> they shot him over some music. and he was in the car. and there's no -- there's no logical reason. there is nothing logical that you can say that would make me believe that you were threatened. >> the mother grieving the loss. as you're pointing out, thi

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