(NC) Shooting ruled self-defense 92-21-0

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SANFORD – Assistant District Attorney Mike Beam will not bring charges
against Paul Redmond, 56, of 1065 Sanders Road, in relation to an August
shooting death at his residence.

Redmond shot Wesley Kelly, 50, of Texas, after Kelly forced his way into
Redmond’s home, according to Lee County sheriff’s deputies.
Kelly had reportedly been outside Redmond’s home, repeatedly asking to
come inside before he broke down the door.

Redmond had called sheriff’s deputies two times before the shooting. He
called back a third time to say he had shot Kelly.

The two men did not know each other.
“I felt like it was a valid claim of self-defense,” Beam said. “It’s
always a tragedy when someone is killed, but I think it’s safe to say
(Redmond) took all the actions he thought were reasonable to defer the
use of deadly force. It just came to the point where he felt he had to
make a decision.”

Beam said he had no indication that the shooting was connected to any
other crime.
“There are no connections between this and any other activity, criminal
or otherwise,” Beam said.

According to initial reports, Kelly said before he was shot that he was
trying to escape attackers.

“I don’t know this guy. He’s trying to tell me people were in the
driveway trying to kill him. I looked out. Nobody’s out there,” Redmond
told The Herald in August. “It’s like he was in this trance or
something. The guy was either having hallucinations or was high on
something.”

Beam would not go into detail as far as an explanation to Kelly’s
behavior.

“Until we dug deeper into this case, it was hard to understand why the
victim took certain actions,” he said. “They were explained, but it
would not be appropriate to discuss them.”