The suspect's attorney claims his client panicked when he shot his romantic rival. Now, they say the woman in the middle needs to tell the truth.
Shanquez Stranton turned himself into authorities after investigators believe he shot and killed his romantic rival in west Houston.A man caught in a love triangle turned himself in after investigators say he shot and killed a woman's boyfriend.The video above is the ABC13 Houston's 24/7 Streaming Channel.Stranton's lawyer says it was all in self-defense.
"He said to me the only reason he pulled that trigger is because that man started beating that woman unmercifully, and he kept beating that woman and beating that woman, and he felt that he was going to kill her," Quanell X, community activist and Stranton's lawyer, said. Investigators said the 31-year-old victim was in and out of a relationship with a woman whom Stranton had been seeing.
"This was a love triangle with both men involved with the same woman, not knowing about each other. And it was an absolutely catastrophic situation that exploded when they both finally met up at her apartment at the same time," Quanell X said.His lawyer says he panicked."I would hope and pray that the lady involved in this, in the middle of this love triangle, will confess and tell the truth," Quanell X said.
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