Arizona rancher says he stared down barrel of AK-47 when he fired warning shots 'over the trees'
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Arizona rancher George Kelly, who was freed after a mistrial in a murder case, said he fired warning shots when illegal immigrants approached his home with a gun
"He turned towards me … pointed the AK at me." "If hell is anything like that, I’m gonna do everything I can not to go." Chris Eberhart is a crime and US news reporter for Fox News Digital. Email tips to chris.eberhart@fox.com or on Twitter @ChrisEberhart48.
Instead, he told the news outlet that he "shot over the tree, over the top of his head, and thank God him and the other guys ran."
Later that day - Jan. 30, 2023 - he found a body and called the sheriff's department. Responding officers accused Kelly of fatally shooting the victim, an illegal immigrant, and hauled him away in cuffs.